2010 · animation · family · comedy
Animals United
Directed by Holger Tappe, Reinhard Klooss1h 33m2010
A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam for a leisure resort. The animals endeavour to save the delta and send a message to the humans not to interfere with nature.
Our read: Animals United (2010) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
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