I was hopeful I would be getting an interesting story showing the origins of the the Mogwai, but sadly this is just a dumbed down cartoon made for young kids. It doesn't honor the source material and makes up things like how Gizmo got his name (see the original 1984 film for the truth).
The style of the animation is nothing special, trying to mimic the trends of the last few years by using flat shading on cgi, made popular by the 2018 Spiderman film, but alot less successful.
Instead of playing off of the source material which was very much a dark comedy with an air of Chinese mysticism, you instead have a childish storyline with some magic thrown in just because. The main Gizmo Mogwai doesn't sound right and they don't even sing the famous melody taught to Billy by Giz correctly.
If you grew up in the 80s and loved the first two movies and were expecting something special here, just pass. This is just another example of a studio trying to leverage existing IP to milk more money out of it regardless of whether it would appeal to the ordinal audience or stay true to it.
The style of the animation is nothing special, trying to mimic the trends of the last few years by using flat shading on cgi, made popular by the 2018 Spiderman film, but alot less successful.
Instead of playing off of the source material which was very much a dark comedy with an air of Chinese mysticism, you instead have a childish storyline with some magic thrown in just because. The main Gizmo Mogwai doesn't sound right and they don't even sing the famous melody taught to Billy by Giz correctly.
If you grew up in the 80s and loved the first two movies and were expecting something special here, just pass. This is just another example of a studio trying to leverage existing IP to milk more money out of it regardless of whether it would appeal to the ordinal audience or stay true to it.