2018 · animation · action · adventure
Next Gen
Directed by Kevin R. Adams1h 45m2018
A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman.
Our read: Next Gen (2018) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal animation · action · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / action, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Watching Next Gen tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Next Gen feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want glossy robot buddy action with a lonely girl finding fierce friendship.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if chaotic Netflix animation and teen angst feel too juvenile for tonight.
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Discussion
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