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The Wild Life (2016) Movie Review

October 6, 2016 Steve Baqqi

Robinson Crusoe is a classic literary work written by Daniel Defoe in the early 18th century. The story involves the titular character spending thirty years stranded on a deserted island and has since been adapted dozens of times into other media. The Wild Life is an animated film adapted from Robinson Crusoe, unfortunately, it’s god-awful. The film probably hoped to slip under the radar of late summer releases that generally bomb or go unnoticed by the masses. The Wild Life is a Belgian-French film translated into English and released upon a naive and unsuspecting audience. I, unfortunately, paid good money to see this garbage. You should not.

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Tags The Wild Life, 2016, Movie Review, Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, Terrible Movies, Belgian-French Film, Super Mario Bros, Yuri Lowenthal, Paradise Island, Finding Dory, Kubo and the Two Strings, Zootopia, Parrot Mak/Tuesday, David Howard Thornton
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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) Movie Review

September 3, 2016 Steve Baqqi

Kubo and the Two Strings is the fourth picture that stop-motion powerhouse Laika has produced (Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls). While I haven’t seen Coraline, Laika’s past two films were dark tales that pushed the boundaries of what a traditional animated (i.e. a film for children) feature should do. In addition, each was a unique look at vastly different societies and cultural history. ParaNorman masterfully skewed New England culture, history, and folklore, while The Boxtrolls took aim at the extremely different classes in old English society. Kubo and the Two Strings is another fantastic animated feature from the studio. Unlike the last two pictures the film isn’t as dark, but it is a sorrowful adventure tale with an uplifting ending about the power of love, family, and memory.

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Tags Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika, Stop-Motion, Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Art Parkinson, The Moon King, Raiden, Ralph Fiennes, Charlize Theron, Japanese, Shintoism, shamisen, Samurai, Gashadokuro, geisha, Matthew McConaughey, McConaissance, Family Film, Animation
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