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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Abominable (2019)

This is a road movie.  Yi lives with her mother and grandmother, and all three are still reeling from the death of her violin=playing father.  Yi had big plans to travel with her father throughout China, and she is saving up to do the trip on her own.
In comes the Yeti, who everyone is searching for but she is the one who finds him and hides him for reasons that go unexplained.  When it becomes clear that he is a relentlessly hunted creature, Yi sets out to return him to the Himalayas, his ancestral home.
The Yeto is magical, which helps them escape from  each and every pinch point that they encounter in their travels home, and while the story leaves nothing to the imagination, the animation is really quite beautiful in a way that is typical of Japanese animated films.  This is a combined effort from Dreamworks and the Chinese studio Pearl, and the collaboration may hold promise in the future.

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