Dazzling and Brilliantly Animated For The Entire Family

Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2019)

13 November 2009. The rich soft texture of the animation makes this film one of the most entrancing and comfortable animated features ever. The balance between reality and fantasy of the animated medium itself provokes one of the strongest storytelling experiences made for just this technique. It is a perfect almost seamless version of an oral history, wrapped in a classic moving canvass. The storyline from THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) together with THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (1963) threads this movie into an emotional and surprisingly humane movie about the essence of human and animal relationships, about fame and fiction and meaning. Except for the moderate irritation of the stretched plot points that detract from the rest of the emphasis on reality in an animated medium such as how does a hamster roll so fast as to catch up to a moving truck and such, this movie delivers strongly. 8/10.