2008 · animation · comedy · family
Oktapodi
Directed by Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi2m2008
Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.
Our read: Oktapodi (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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How Oktapodi 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 a frantic two-minute wordless chase of two octopi escaping a determined cook.”
Skip it tonight — You want dialogue or anything longer than a quick animated gag reel.
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