Maidexpl
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
2freensel
I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.
Bessie Smyth
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Vonia
Boy and the World (Brazilian Portuguese: O Menino e o Mundo) (2013)
Director: Alê Abreu
Watched: December 2017
Rating: 6/10 Colorful/playful,
Children's drawings come alive,
Kaleidoscope fun.
Lively Brazilian soundtrack,
Learn Latin America. Baffling/disordered,
Only backwards Portuguese.
Social change soapbox-
Characters/plot take back seat;
Rather see stills in art show. Somonka is a form of poetry that is essentially two tanka poems (the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable format), the second stanza a response to the first. Traditionally, each is a love letter and it requires two authors, but sometimes a poet takes on two personas. My somonka will be a love/hate letter to this film?
#Somonka #PoemReview #Animation #LatinAmerca #NoDialogue #Propoganda
IkhwanArif
By all accounts BatW isn't a bad animated film, but while it's good in all aspects, it lacks in all areas too. It's an immature attempt at a mature topic.Chief reason why you would want to watch BatW is the animation. BatW employs a mostly minimal artwork in pastel colors and for the most part it works. It's stick figures in colors and the animation is good as well. But the artwork isn't anything groundbreaking and it lacks the depth and breadth of Japanese and even American animation. Facial expressions for example, are not conveyed in any of the characters. And I'd say that this problem is present in other aspects of the film.Such as the sound. Sound is very important in animated films. While the music is fitting and compliments the mood of the film, the movie didn't go the extra mile in, lets say, comveying emotions with sounds effects, there is no nuance in the sound. The pacing is too slow. Things only get interesting by the 1/2 hour mark and even then, the story kind of meanders back and forth between what the 'boy' sees, and what is actually happening storywise. The story itself is rather basic, as it is a about the 'boy' searching for his father and exoerience what the world is like outside of his village. The "darker" themes in the second half of the film, aren't really dark, but simply a realization of how the world is, but it's rather one-sided. Contrast this to the best Japanese animated movie where the story is paramount, where characters are nuanced and the story is rich and complex, and I am talking about kid stories, not Ghibli Studio.You can skip this if you want.
lukasvangestel
Boy and the World may seem as a simple animated movie, but it doesn't take long to discover it's a colorful, stylish, complex, handcrafted Brazilian animated adventure. The movie is without dialog, but it doesn't need any words to tell it's beautiful story of a boy traveling to the city to find his father and reunite his family. Boy and the world manages to capture the wonder and uncertainty of childhood while dealing with heavy themes as industrialisation, urbanisation and social inequality. I urge everybody to watch it! This is a must-see for children and adults.
DareDevilKid
Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)Rating: 1.9/5 starsThe arrival of a new animated feature from American distributor GKids is usually a good sign. The company has given us international treasures and erstwhile Oscar nominees such as "The Secret of Kells", "Ernest and Celestine", "Chico and Rita" and "A Cat in Paris", which probably would have languished in obscurity were it not were their initiative to ensure that these masterpieces reach a wider American audience.Its latest release is the Oscar-nominated Brazilian film "Boy & the World", and while the movie is definitely an example of the adventurous, idiosyncratic, art-house animated style the company has come to represent over the years, it comes nowhere close to achieving the heights of the aforementioned titles. Without using any intelligible or even decipherable dialogue (which would have been fine had the narrative not being so tedious and soporific; this is certainly no "Shaun the Sheep"), the animated offering lackadaisically tells the story of a young boy living in an impoverished countryside whose father moves to the city in search of work. Later, the boy follows him, and has a series of encounters that expose him to the woes of the modern world: urbanization, economic exploitation, environmental degradation, and so on. However, the narrative never attempts to offer alternative to what it alludes to being evils that urgently need to be eradicated from our lifestyles.Director Alê Abreu uses a unique visual style that combines childlike, almost stick-figure people with an increasingly frenzied decoupage to represent the overstimulated world he's swallowed up in. It's rather like a very talented grade-schooler's refrigerator- door drawings expressing life. Unfortunately, the simplistic moral message of the movie and its insistence on remaining nonverbal make "Boy & the World" feel like something that would have been more tolerable as a 15- minute short than an 80-minute feature, which makes us wonder why on earth did this travesty bag an Oscar nomination over other much more deserving animated features this year. Was it just because of the distributor's reputation...?
