2023 · adventure · animation · comedy
Under the Boardwalk
Directed by David Soren1h 27m2023
Two crabs embark on an epic journey to get home after a storm sweeps them away. Their courage soon unites their families, paving the way for great summers to come.
Our read: Under the Boardwalk (2023) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive adventure · animation · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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