A movie that should appeal to little kids but will bore adults, like a live-action Minions movie. There's lots of goofy brightly-colored animated characters. But some quirky childish magic, like Willy Wonka, would have helped sell the movie.
The story is all over the place and the human characters are pretty dull. The story doesn't really know what it's trying to say. It starts off trying to find new homes for the IFs, then completely changes directions to reuniting IFs with their humans, then finishes off with helping the main girl through a tough time. It's not hard to think about far better works Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and A Monster Calls, which handled this exact same story far better.
There's a few twists, but they're so predictable they can be figured out from the trailers. There's a lot of huge holes the movie doesn't bother with, like why the grandmother doesn't seem to care where her granddaughter is most of the day or why the father is in the hospital for days but never seems sick. The IFs could be a big more imaginative, as most of them just seem like random objects with a face and not all what a kid would make into a friend.
It has a huge cast that it doesn't fully utilize. Steve Carrell's Blue is fun to watch. Louis Gossett Jr.'s has some meaningful moments in one of his final performances. Jon Stewart's Robot has some good one-liners. But the rest of the voice cast is forgettable. The other IFs have pretty forgettable voices, and should have gone to actual voice actors.
Cailey Fleming is fine though nothing special. John Krasinski is trying maybe a bit too hard to be fun and silly. Ryan Reynolds is completely underutilized, too much of the straight man which goes against his skills. It almost seems like Krasinski and Reynolds should have switched roles.
The movie looks nice but is forgettable. For the same story, 2016's A Monster Calls handled it far better.
The story is all over the place and the human characters are pretty dull. The story doesn't really know what it's trying to say. It starts off trying to find new homes for the IFs, then completely changes directions to reuniting IFs with their humans, then finishes off with helping the main girl through a tough time. It's not hard to think about far better works Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and A Monster Calls, which handled this exact same story far better.
There's a few twists, but they're so predictable they can be figured out from the trailers. There's a lot of huge holes the movie doesn't bother with, like why the grandmother doesn't seem to care where her granddaughter is most of the day or why the father is in the hospital for days but never seems sick. The IFs could be a big more imaginative, as most of them just seem like random objects with a face and not all what a kid would make into a friend.
It has a huge cast that it doesn't fully utilize. Steve Carrell's Blue is fun to watch. Louis Gossett Jr.'s has some meaningful moments in one of his final performances. Jon Stewart's Robot has some good one-liners. But the rest of the voice cast is forgettable. The other IFs have pretty forgettable voices, and should have gone to actual voice actors.
Cailey Fleming is fine though nothing special. John Krasinski is trying maybe a bit too hard to be fun and silly. Ryan Reynolds is completely underutilized, too much of the straight man which goes against his skills. It almost seems like Krasinski and Reynolds should have switched roles.
The movie looks nice but is forgettable. For the same story, 2016's A Monster Calls handled it far better.
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