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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
Good spin-off episode, relation to rest of the series shoehorned in
The episode itself was made as a spin-off to the rest of the show, actually setting it in the same era as the original books.
The case presented in this episode is about a seemingly supernatural event, as a woman, dressed up as a bride, who publicly commits suicide by shooting herself in the head, later on the same day murders his husband (doing it again in public) who recognizes her before his death. The dead body, being chained down by the terrified morgue staff, is positively identified as the same woman as well.
The mystery Sherlock is trying to solve is how can a dead woman commit a murder.
The story almost works well, however the writers felt compelled to make this connected to the rest of the series' events, as it turns out late in the episode that all of the events are actually happening in present-day Sherlocks' mind, as he is dosed up on drugs to solve an over 100 year old mystery in an attempt to figure out whether Moriarty, who died by shooting himself in the head in front of Sherlock, and is thought to have returned, could have faked his suicide.
This part felt really forced in my opinion, as the rest of the episode was separate enough from the whole of the series to work as a spin-off episode which attempted to capture the spirit of the books a bit more closely, with more book-accurate, even if at points exaggerated versions of the series' characters being shown.
It did not only make a good attempt at making the characters more accurate, but it also captured the feel of the late 19th century relatively well, which makes it all the more painful as they drag the viewer out of their immersion.
Overall, I believe that this episode came really close to capturing the spirit of the books, but the connection to the overall story of the show felt incredibly unnecessary, thus detracting from the viewing experience.
Chiisana eiyû: Kani to tamago to tômei ningen (2018)
Great story and great animation combined
Not going to lie, all the other user reviews infuriated me. They claim that the animation is great but the story is non-existent. This is just false, since all stories have great stories AND incredible animation.
This film contains three different stories, one about a family of tiny people living under the water, one about a mother and his child who suffers from a severe food allergy, and one story of an invisible man who's overlooked by everyone.
These stories all have different feels to them and even different artstyles.
I definitely recommend watching it, since it showcases beautiful animation and heartwarming stories.
Kis Vuk (2008)
One of the most insulting and lazy cash-grabs ever created
I'm guessing if you are not a Hungarian you probably don't know that this movie was actually a sequel to one of the most beloved animated movies ever released in Hungary. The original movie was based on a short novel and basically followed the story of a small fox cub named Vuk as he grew up. The story, while made for kids does delve into themes such as death and loss, the main character loses many of his loved ones and has to struggle to survive. The sequel, the one I'm writing this review for insults the legacy of the original movie and seems to be just using the name to trick people into watching this horrible piece of garbage. The storytelling is lazy and isn't really that interesting. There are two main characters in the story: kis Vuk (literally meaning little Vuk) who is the son of Vuk from the original movie, and a kid in a wheel chair (I literally can't remember his name) who has a dog and who's parents died before the events of the film. The main villain of the story is a woman who's supposed to be the head of a traveling circus (she has a stick that can hypnotize people for no reason). In the original movie the villains of the story were the humans and their faces were never shown, it felt like the entire movie was made from the perspective of the foxes. The villains are shown to be completely incompetent in this movie while in the original they felt truly powerful and they did manage to kill multiple of the main characters' loved ones.
I don't really want to waste my time with the story because I have to talk about the animation and the horrible artstyle of the movie.I animate in 2D so I might not be an expert in CG animation but still, I have to say that from the first few moments the movie manages to showcase impressively bad animation for a movie with a 5,000,000 Euros budget.The problem goes further than the animation itself, since both the character and background design are awful. It also feels like some of the shots go uncomfortably close to the characters.The flaws in the animation itself becomes even more apparent if you slow down the footage and look at some of the movement. Some of the movement feels completely unrealistic and not in a good way. Most of the time movement in animation is exaggerated but in this one it just feels plain wrong, at one moment in the beginning the main character does a complete 360 in mid-air without having to push away from something at a low altitude. Talking about exaggeration, some of the movement feels completely weightless. The issues with the character design are even worse with the human characters that just look completely awful.
Overall, everything from the character design to the animation and the story create a movie that's not only insulting to the original classic, but also insulting to 3D animation. This movie is completely irredeemable and all around bad.