2019 · animation · comedy · family
Missing Link
Directed by Chris Butler1h 34m2019
The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.
Our read: Missing Link (2019) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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How Missing Link feels to watch.
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“You want gorgeous Laika adventure about a lonely Bigfoot seeking family and belonging.”
Skip it tonight — You want pure comedy; gun chases and peril skew older than the poster suggests.
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