2007 · animation · sci-fi · family
Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix
Directed by Scooter Tidwell, Sebastian Montes1h 11m2007
After a battle with Dr. Animo in a power plant, Ben notices something strange is happening with the Omnitrix but doesn't tell anyone. Tetrax arrives and tells them the Omnitrix is broadcasting a self-destruct signal. Tetrax and Ben go to find the creator of the Omnitrix to fix it before it destroys itself and the universe along with it. Gwen stows away to help her cousin.
Our read: Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix (2007) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · sci-fi · family entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle animation / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
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