2019 · family · animation · adventure
Abominable
Directed by Jill Culton1h 37m2019
A group of misfits encounter a young Yeti named Everest, and they set off to reunite the magical creature with his family on the mountain of his namesake.
Our read: Abominable (2019) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal family · animation · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want colorful adventure about family hurt eased by a magical creature.”
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