Beautiful but bleak

Rating: 7/10 (1 July 2013)

Touching, original, funny and full of surprises - highly recommended, not only for claymation fans like me. The visual gags are good and often surprising, and the story enters areas usually left untrodden by animation.
The technical aspects themselves are below Aardman or Laika standard, but efficient; what keeps this film from getting a better grade from me is the drab colour palette and overall depressing tone - don't get me wrong, those are parts of life, too - but you can overdo everything and nearly 90 minutes are a bit much for my taste. So the re-watch value is not that high, for me at least.