Trailer
Synopsis
Three generations of a legendary family of explorers will find themselves in an uncharted land with strange creatures. If they want to survive from the numerous dangers, they must bridge their differences and work together.
Seeing that Pando is an infection attacking the creature's heart, they head back to inform the expedition team that Pando must be destroyed, but Callisto has them locked up to prevent them from stopping the mission, while Jaeger furiously sails off to see for himself. After Legend and Splat free the family, Searcher and Ethan head to the creature's heart to clear a path for the Reapers, while Meridian takes over the ship and convinces Callisto to help. Jaeger returns, and with his help, they break through Pando, and the creatures appear and destroy it, bringing the heart back to life and saving the land.
Tory Simpson
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
As far as animation it was of course, great. Disney always hits with this but I am of the same mind that many of these movies now are coming out to just prove a point instead of someone truly writing a great script where all of the characters fit the plot naturally and nicely. In this one out of the blue some blast from the past woman official comes in with an extremely urgent need that can’t wait or the world will fail.. all of these people suddenly have such a close meaningful interaction and relationship.. especially the estranged dad who left and never came back 25 years ago. He and his son picked right back up where they left off even after the dad said he couldn’t give up who he was for his son. Film was boring to me and all over the place. I am also of the mindset that it is not Disney's job to show child romances.. great films have come out with zero love interest for the child/teenage stars and those are the best ones (Moana, brave).. If I am watching this with my 7 and 6 year old, I don’t want it to center around how you can impress your crush and I don’t want my kids getting their romance lessons from Disney. Some of us think that teenagers shouldn’t be focusing on deep romantic relationships at that age. Remember who your audience mainly is Disney. Even turning red zeroed way in on the preteen crushes and I get the gist but the girls were obsessed and desperate. Write great adventure stories but leave the politics and agendas out of it from both sides. Let kids enjoy good movies without parents having to worry about this. Tired of the environment push.. kids can learn about this outside of Disney.. tired of the teenager being misunderstood by the parents agenda.. what would be great is showing a parent/kid relationship that works and is healthy. Imagine our kids learning that it’s okay to like and admire your parents as you get older… honestly ready to see a movie build up my son just as much as my daughter. We understand the need for strong female Figures but it’s okay for there to be strong male figures, too that aren’t dopey and misguided.
Neon Majora
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
This is a mainly negative review as I can't find much positive to say about it Dialogue is garbo for the most part. It has zero subtly, often feels cliche and feels like characters are just saying what they "need to" for plot points and exposition, that being said it does not follow the show don't tell rule. It also tries to be witty and funny, and almost always fails in my opinion Most of the characters feel like they don't need to exist. The ship has several crewmates that are out of sight during every fight sequence, what are they even supposed to be doing? And the ones that are on-screen have almost no real impact and predictably they made the male the only one that was completely useless lol. The boy the son has a crush on also has very little screentime which gives no real opportunity for anyone to warm up to it if they weren't okay with it initially As for the environmental message there's some problems. They only went as far as to acknowledge that using a damaging power source harms living things including humanity. And that killing things humans find unpleasant can disrupt ecosystems. They stop using their harmful power source and live without it, but how did they survive, convince others to change their lifestyles and do it? They show almost nothing. People walk and ride bikes and the mom uses wind power to light some string lights in the square. Their world seemingly has a singular community that lives in harmony, where resources are no issue and wealth inequality is at least lesser. It would be far easier to transition from one form of energy to another in a world like that, but they don't show us how to get there. Oh well, at least it taught something
Kyle Vansteelandt
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
The moral of the movie is quite strong! Makes you consider the actions of humanity and nature. It's a good quality movie with good actors. It contains drama, adventure, action and fantasy in one! I would suggest this movie for fantasy movie enthusiast's!