I went into this movie not expecting much as it didn't give me any reason to. While watching the movie I kept going between liking the movie and feeling neutral towards it. I like the relationship building between the father and daughter, but I disliked the flat side characters and odd attempts at humor.
The animation is good and flows nicely (the smoke and ember were hypnotic and beautiful). Now of course it's not Pixar tier but it's not bad for it's budget and animation studio.
The one of the main reasons that holds this movie back from being great is the side characters. They are as 1 dimensional as you can get but that's ok. They don't serve much of a purpose for anything other than moving the story along or provide occasional attempts at comedy and that's ok. The spot light always return to the father and daughter, it doesn't linger on the side characters for too long.
The villain is a little obvious but at the same time the motivations were interesting. They played off the conflict between the father and daughter in an interesting way.
All in all I'd say this is a good movie. Not great because it has its flaws, as every movie does, but it's a nice movie if you want a heartwarming story (pun intended) with good animation that will leave you feeling good after.
NOW, I would rate this a 7/10 but there are a lot of people who are rating this movie a 1/10 because it's "pushing an agenda" so I'm trying to counter it a bit. In response to the people upset that the movie is "pushing an agenda" I say that it isn't really isn't. Its not a story for people like you who don't want to let women do things men can do, it's a story for young women who don't think they can do things men can do. It's encouraging them to not let anyone stop them from achieving what they want in life because they are a women.
The animation is good and flows nicely (the smoke and ember were hypnotic and beautiful). Now of course it's not Pixar tier but it's not bad for it's budget and animation studio.
The one of the main reasons that holds this movie back from being great is the side characters. They are as 1 dimensional as you can get but that's ok. They don't serve much of a purpose for anything other than moving the story along or provide occasional attempts at comedy and that's ok. The spot light always return to the father and daughter, it doesn't linger on the side characters for too long.
The villain is a little obvious but at the same time the motivations were interesting. They played off the conflict between the father and daughter in an interesting way.
All in all I'd say this is a good movie. Not great because it has its flaws, as every movie does, but it's a nice movie if you want a heartwarming story (pun intended) with good animation that will leave you feeling good after.
NOW, I would rate this a 7/10 but there are a lot of people who are rating this movie a 1/10 because it's "pushing an agenda" so I'm trying to counter it a bit. In response to the people upset that the movie is "pushing an agenda" I say that it isn't really isn't. Its not a story for people like you who don't want to let women do things men can do, it's a story for young women who don't think they can do things men can do. It's encouraging them to not let anyone stop them from achieving what they want in life because they are a women.