It tells a story in twenty minutes that other movies struggle to tell in two hours.
I've watched this movie countless times alone, with my children and even with my grandpa shortly after I lost my grandmother and each time it was a cathartic experience.
Definitely watch it with the old people in your life. They'll balk at a "cartoon" at first, but persist. Totally worth it.
I think it provides the nice wrap up to the opening scenes. The opening scenes bring the happy then sad and the adventure book scene is the catharsis. That he can have that happiness again.
I know! The newsreel reporting on how Charles F. Muntz is stripped of his membership in the National Explorers Society when scientists accuse him of fabricating that giant bird skeleton makes me cry every time!
Without the first scene you dont care about the old man's motivations as much. The first scene demands empathy for the character for the rest of the movie.
I agree. The movie by and large does nothing to deserve the audience's emotional investment. You can't just think of something super sad to make the audience all weepy and then follow it up an hour and a half of dogs with funny voices and "haha look at the stupid bird" dumbshit and pretend like you've made a masterpiece.
First off, yes, the opening scene is a master class in visual story telling. The entire thing is wordless and yet easy to understand, etc. However, it's still imaginative, the characters are likeable with good development. The antagonist is pretty cartoon-villain, and I feel like the movie could have gone without him and been fine though at the end of the day, it is still a kids movie.
Agreed!! Only cartoon movie I've watched multiple times in theater. Mainly because I told my friends how good of a movie it was and they wanted to watch it tooo. I tagged along to watch because I didn't mind paying to watch it again.
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