2024 · animation · fantasy · family
Spellbound
Directed by Vicky Jenson1h 51m2024
When a powerful spell turns her parents into giant monsters, a teenage princess must journey into the wild to reverse the curse before it's too late.
Our read: Spellbound (2024) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal animation · fantasy · family entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
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