I put off watching this one for the longest time because, by all accounts it wasnt so much a movie more an audiobook with stock footage running over the top of it…and well, that IS basically all this is.
A 90 minute audio narration telling the stoy of a boy named Pip who escapes a smog addled city to go to the woods, where he learns he can transform into different woodland animals, and the adventures he gets into while hes out there. With almost 95% of the films visuals being either royalty free stock footage, with 5 beng a handful of rushed shots captured on the fly to fill in the gaps where stock was totally unavailable.
THe script for this reads like an ‘automatic writing’ experiment and comes across as pretentious, and the visuals range from unpleasent, to irritating, to just beyond surreal. Its trying to be whimsical and fun. But it all falls flat on its face.
Even Socks Whitmore cant save this one, shes the only narrator for the full movies runtime, and she has a small handful of good moments. But its clear this needed a full cast, rather than just one person doing the job of 5 people.
Boring, cheap and downright dire as a viewing OR Listening experience. The handful of good Socks line deliveries and a couple of genuinely surreal moments that grabbed my attention were the paper thin mercies that stopped this film from basically being totally unwatchable.
Not worth your time, its a painful thing to sit through, I wont be watching it again.
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