2021 · animation · adventure · fantasy
Hilda and the Mountain King
Directed by Andy Coyle1h 23m2021
When Hilda wakes up in the body of a troll, she must use her wits and courage to get back home, become human again — and save the city of Trolberg.
Our read: Hilda and the Mountain King (2021) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · adventure · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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