2001 · family · comedy · adventure
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Directed by John A. Davis1h 23m2001
Jimmy Neutron is a boy genius and way ahead of his friends, but when it comes to being cool, he's a little behind. All until one day when his parents, and parents all over Earth are kidnapped by aliens, it's up to him to lead all the children of the world to rescue their parents.
Our read: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal family · comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / comedy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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