Review of Wendell & Wild

Wendell and Wild, once again demonstrates the skill of Henry Selick's Stop Motion animation skills. But without out the foundation of Burton's imagination and the wonderful film score of Danny Elfman, this film lacks heart and humor. The collaboration of Selick and Jordan Peele created a seriously mediocre story which stumbles through a clumsy, storyline with mostly shallow characters, in typical bizarre Selick settings. This is a very adult story, which follows the politics of a small town overtaken by evil corporation wanting to privatize a prison system. Add in an almost demonic Catholic Girls school, Demonic underworld, and you have a clumsy story that doesn't merit the stop motion format. It's unfortunate that Netflix doesn't exercise more power in story development. Because it's obvious, that Selicks skill as a director, does not match his writing and producing skills.