isaacdransy I do not at all like it when a movie makes me think! EVERYTHING should be told to me! Not a single detail should not be thought provoking, nor engaging! that's what brilliant masterpieces such as skyscraper, Incredibles 2 (the first one was horrifically awful), and Starwars: episode II: The phantom clone sith. It's animation is HORRIBLE!!! because it lacks TRADITIONAL 3 DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GENERATED ANIMATION! IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S DONE IN CRAYON AND PASTEL PAINT! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE OCCUPIED BY IMAGERY GOING INTO MY BRAINLESS SKULL!!!!!! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HAVE FUN WHILE WATCHING A MOVIE, IF I HAVE TO INTERPRET ITS MEANING WITH MYYYYY HEEEEEAD!Overall, I would highly recommend this film to find that review to be satyrical. If you agreed with any of the points I made, don't watch. Just go ahead and watch what those other filthy bumbloids are watching. Skyscraper just came out, awful movie but if you wanna see it, go ahead. Peace yo

popcorninhell Decades behind a computer, toiling and tinkering with the programming and software has given us the near-photographic realism of CGI animation. The culmination of which is the film Inside Out (2015) which won the Best Animated Feature Oscar this past year. Yet as anyone who truly loves animation will know, it's not about who has the most detailed techniques or the most expensive equipment. With great ideas and simple yet sublime stories, something as lo-fi as Boy and the World can move its audience to the core.The story begins with a young boy (Garcia) who lives in a rural abode near the jungle. His father (Campos), a mustached man sporting a straw hat and a flute, grabs a suitcase and heads to the city. the boy is heartbroken by his father's sudden absence and decides to head to the city to find him. On his odyssey he meets a host of colorful characters and comes face to face with the seductiveness, absurdity and danger of modern life.The animation is reminiscent of the work of Don Hertzfeldt. Everything is cobbled together with simple geometric shapes and seemingly done in charcoal and crayon. Yet unlike Hertzfeldt's work there isn't a sense of ruing existential doom; at its heart it is innately humanistic. Its simplicity and kaleidoscopic vision immediately strikes you with a sense of childlike wonder and as things in the story become more complex it washes over you in a flood of emotion and awe. The color palette in this film is so effective in rendering the wonder of the jungle, the bustling of the city and the rainbow-tinged weaving's of the Mestizo people that parade down the streets.It's important to note that the movie is largely non-verbal. What is uttered is dubbed in backward Portuguese and the only guiding light you're given are the visuals and the soundtrack. And what a neat soundtrack it is! Grupo Experimental de Musica (GEM), Emicida, Nana Vasconcelos and the Bushdancers all somewhat obscure Brazilian bands that help the story gently flow through you. Not since the early work of Hayao Miyazaki has there been a more genuine work of youthful artistic expression and such a full spectrum of unfettered emotion.A movie so deceptively simple and yet so emotionally complex comes around only once every few years, and an animation of this caliber comes round perhaps once in a generation. Some may not be hard won by it's environmental overtones and be contrarian to its thoughts on consumerism yet there's no denying that a story this human deserves attention and praise. Blink and you'll miss this little gem but if you can find it in theaters or (hopefully soon) on Netflix, I highly recommend it.

Thomas Fackler Many people have many voices.Once, I watched this film. In this film I saw myself. I was simple; I was young. I was old; I was young.I watched this film and saw the world through eyes. 'I's that were and are and ever shall have been. I watched and saw. I was Earth; I was young. I was Human; I was growing. I was Society; I was aging. I was All Alone; I was laying down to sleep.To understand I'll watch again. To understand I'll watch again. To understand I'll watch again.To understand.

drazsika-716-814820 First of all - make sure you are full of energy when sitting down watching this movie.The movie will bring you into a whole new world. Absolutely unknown ways of expressing landscapes, people, feelings, war, nature. An artistic visual trip that'll have shapes, figures and structures staying in your mind while I had hardships following the plot and understand the jumps from certain scenes to next ones and jumps in time.I don't think the movie is even close to my animation favourites from Studio Ghibli (Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of Fireflies, etc.) or for example the movie Waltz with Bashir but I recommend the movie for those who love new solutions and ideas in visual art and animation movies.