Missing Link is the newest animated film by Laika Studios who made Kubo and the Two Strings, ParaNorman, Coraline and the Boxtrolls, this story takes place in turn of the Century England where an Adventurer Sir Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman) is keen to discover the existence of Bigfoot but when he finds the creature he is wanting to go to Shangri-La to find others like him so he is less lonely but there are other Adventurers who are not so keen to see Sir Lionel succeed.
Missing Link is a lot of fun and Laika once again do a beautiful job animating this movie, the stop motion work feels seamless and the look of the characters and the environments they walk around in look great on the big screen and I really hope people give it a chance in the cinema as it looks great and very colourful.
And also the film has a very nice adventure story that I really got behind and surprised me in a way that I did not expect as sometimes in animated movies there are certain beats those films hit especially around the two thirds mark and happily I didn’t get that to a certain extent and it was very relieving as even great animated movies can suffer from this but here its handled very well and it didn’t bother me too much.
And lastly the film has some fun vocal performances, its always a pleasure to hear Hugh Jackman have fun in a movie and he is very charming as Sir Lionel, Zoe Saldana and Zack Galifinakis are also pretty good but I particularly liked Stephen Fry as the rival Adventurer where he channels his best British snootiness and I thought it was him but when it was confirmed in the end credits I wasn’t surprised and its probably my favorite performance in the movie.
And so that was Missing Link and it’s a lot of fun that hopefully doesn’t go ignored in cinemas, 3 and a half out of 5.
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