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Boyfriend and I have been on a kick of watching feel-good cartoon movies lately. This happened to be the next on our list. Out of all the movies we've watched recently, we agreed that this was by far the worst.
Every single character in this is rude to one another and there is no real addressing of this other than "I'm sorry I was a jerk" - "I'm sorry you were jerk too! Haha!" or asking to play with Latte after she returns home from bringing the water back, when really there should be an apology for making fun of the fact that she's an orphan and outcasting her for her entire life..? We, as grown adults, found ourself scoffing at the writing of the movie as it's just straight-up rude and not in a lesson-to-be-learned type of way. Just in a rude-with-no-direct-apology way.
The resolution to the movie also makes no sense and wraps up in about 5 minutes of the film. In short, she's supposed to go retrieve the water stone from the bear king. While the bear king is doing a synchronized swimming routine in his pool, Latte and the squirrel dislodge the stone from the rock and end up making it to the wolf mountain where the bear king catches up to them. There, the bear king, the wolves, and the lynx all fight over the possession of the stone. Then, Latte just... lodges the stone into the mountain and water is restored? Why were the wolves fighting if she was going to put it in their mountain anyway? How did the bears get water along with everyone else, but everyone else didn't have it before when the bears did? Nothing in the topography changed, so the river route doesn't make any sense..? Why couldn't the bear just dislodge the stone after Latte left and take it back to his cave? What happened to Latte's Dad? What was the purpose of the landslide? Just made no sense and was a messy ending.
Definitely not a feel-good. Aside from the ending that had no logic, I wouldn't even show this to kids, unless you want to teach them that rude behavior doesn't require genuine apologies or that it's okay to be mean to others. Watch something else, there are way better movies on Netflix.
Boyfriend and I have been on a kick of watching feel-good cartoon movies lately. This happened to be the next on our list. Out of all the movies we've watched recently, we agreed that this was by far the worst.
Every single character in this is rude to one another and there is no real addressing of this other than "I'm sorry I was a jerk" - "I'm sorry you were jerk too! Haha!" or asking to play with Latte after she returns home from bringing the water back, when really there should be an apology for making fun of the fact that she's an orphan and outcasting her for her entire life..? We, as grown adults, found ourself scoffing at the writing of the movie as it's just straight-up rude and not in a lesson-to-be-learned type of way. Just in a rude-with-no-direct-apology way.
The resolution to the movie also makes no sense and wraps up in about 5 minutes of the film. In short, she's supposed to go retrieve the water stone from the bear king. While the bear king is doing a synchronized swimming routine in his pool, Latte and the squirrel dislodge the stone from the rock and end up making it to the wolf mountain where the bear king catches up to them. There, the bear king, the wolves, and the lynx all fight over the possession of the stone. Then, Latte just... lodges the stone into the mountain and water is restored? Why were the wolves fighting if she was going to put it in their mountain anyway? How did the bears get water along with everyone else, but everyone else didn't have it before when the bears did? Nothing in the topography changed, so the river route doesn't make any sense..? Why couldn't the bear just dislodge the stone after Latte left and take it back to his cave? What happened to Latte's Dad? What was the purpose of the landslide? Just made no sense and was a messy ending.
Definitely not a feel-good. Aside from the ending that had no logic, I wouldn't even show this to kids, unless you want to teach them that rude behavior doesn't require genuine apologies or that it's okay to be mean to others. Watch something else, there are way better movies on Netflix.