2025 · animation · comedy · adventure
Pets on a Train
Directed by Jean-Christian Tassy, Benoît Daffis1h 26m2025
When a train unexpectedly starts up, taking only pets with it, the animals discover that Hans, a badger with a grudge is behind it all. While the crash seems inevitable, the animals can count on Falcon, a roguish Raccoon who will do anything to save them.
Our read: Pets on a Train (2025) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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