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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Missing Link (2019)

This movie is nominated for an Oscar and it won the Golden Globe award this year.  The theory is that with Frozen II and Toy Story 4, the Disney vote was split and this came out the winner (which doesn't make total sense to me, but then I am neither a film critic nor an expert on all things Hollywood), but none-the-less it is a funny story that I very much enjoyed.  It is also probably amongst the last of the dying breed of stop motion animation films that will be made.
The story is somewhere between a road trip comedy and a buddy adventure.  The movie follows the brave adventurer Sir Lionel Frost on a journey to find the legendary Sasquatch and reunite him with his long-lost relatives. Along with fellow explorer Adelina Fortnight, the trio weather all manner of perils and ultimately learns that sometimes you can find family in the places you least expect. It is an adventure story that traverses iconic locations in the world circa 1900 but also navigates subtexts like xenophobia, classism, and the anti-evolutionary precept of human exceptionalism. We were a room full of adults who loved it, start to finish.

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