Review: 'Missing Link' is a visually stunning story about a lonely Bigfoot, but it’s missing something
From left: Sir Lionel Frost , Mr. Link and Adelina Fortnight in ”Missing Link,” the latest from the same Oregon animation studio that created “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “Coraline.” By Jane Horwitz April 12 Rating:
Although it breaks new ground visually, elements of the tale don’t always meld with grace. The film is a rich-looking blend of stop-motion animation, enhanced with computer-generated effects and 3-D printing techniques . Yet these are all at the service of a perhaps over-intellectualized, emotionally wanting plot, humor that doesn’t always land, and a too-frequent and too-dark undercurrent of threatened violence.
Chris Butler wrote and directed “Missing Link” and also designed the characters. His first film as writer/co-director was Laika’s “ParaNorman,” about a boy who felt like an outcast and saw ghosts. Here he creates two more outcasts — an explorer whose views aren’t accepted by the adventurers’ club he longs to join, and a lonely, last-of-his-breed sasquatch who wants to leave the Pacific Northwest and join his cousins in the Himalayas.
In a ravishing prologue, Sir Lionel Frost , a smug yet dashing British explorer, sips tea in a canoe as the Loch Ness monster looms above and then gives him and his manservant a really wild ride. But the fusty old men in London’s Optimates Club don’t believe Sir Lionel’s tales of Nessies or sasquatches or yetis. Nor do they accept evolution. He vows to prove them all wrong, especially Lord Piggot-Dunceby , the dean of the group.
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