This is hardly a movie, it's more like a narrated and animated short story. In fact, that's precisely what it is.
It really feels like the movie industry is running out of ideas. This feels like a desperate attempt to be novel and thus to stand out from the crowd. Judging by the average star score for this (7.5), they were successful.
I'm sure this was a very low budget effort... looking it up... I'm right; something like $20 million dollars.
The story is good, I can't fault that - it's a Roald Dahl classic -, but as a movie it is intensely dull. It's sort of at the level you might expect from an airline safety instruction video. It's the kind of movie that you can safely "watch" in the background while you type a scathing review of it and be certain you haven't missed anything worth seeing.
The style of "acting" isn't acting at all. It's literally just narration. It is almost precisely what you would get if you had a set of famous actors narrating a book on a service like Audible. I can't comment on the script... because there isn't one. This is just a book, being read, by a cast, mostly in a monotone, spoken quickly.
In fact I can see this launching a new genre of entertainment service... maybe they'll call it Visible.
It really feels like the movie industry is running out of ideas. This feels like a desperate attempt to be novel and thus to stand out from the crowd. Judging by the average star score for this (7.5), they were successful.
I'm sure this was a very low budget effort... looking it up... I'm right; something like $20 million dollars.
The story is good, I can't fault that - it's a Roald Dahl classic -, but as a movie it is intensely dull. It's sort of at the level you might expect from an airline safety instruction video. It's the kind of movie that you can safely "watch" in the background while you type a scathing review of it and be certain you haven't missed anything worth seeing.
The style of "acting" isn't acting at all. It's literally just narration. It is almost precisely what you would get if you had a set of famous actors narrating a book on a service like Audible. I can't comment on the script... because there isn't one. This is just a book, being read, by a cast, mostly in a monotone, spoken quickly.
In fact I can see this launching a new genre of entertainment service... maybe they'll call it Visible.