Saturday, January 2, 2016

The Congress, 2013 - ★★½

You can also find this review on Letterboxd

I like when movies do something that is new, that is different. But this was just a little too weird for me.

Robin Wright (Robin Wright) isn't the most popular actress anymore. Because of that and because she is deemed unreliable, the head of Miramount makes her an offer to let them scan her completely with all her emotions so that they can make movies with her likeliness without needing her. After some thinking she accepts. Then, 20 years later, she goes into an animated world and becomes a toon...

When I heard about this idea I liked it. There is so much you could do about that. I wish they had focused more on the digital version of her/what happened, could be done with that. Instead they go into a completely crazy way that doesn't even have to do that much with the beginning of the movie.

The animation style was good, it wasn't a clean Disney look, it was all a bit rough, but that made the charme. Also I really enjoyed what they did with the animated world. You basically can do whatever you want and where is that done better than in animation?

But this whole story was really a bit too crazy, honestly I didn't get most of what happened once she got there. Once because it was really fucked up, but also because to be honest I didn't care enough about the movie/the story to actually pay enough attention (which was needed to get this). I just caught myself checking my phone, going to reddit or reading about the movie I've watched before this on IMDb.

So while the concept is great, the animation is good looking and it is something I have never seen before it didn't keep me interested enough and was just too crazy. So I'm only rating this 2.5 out of 5 stars, I didn't hate it but also didn't love it.

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