Kira-Ani-McGrath

So I wanted to write something about this movie for a while now, but I wanted to wait until we were outside of a ”spoiler alert” timeframe to do it. I’ve not done a journal forever here (sorry!!! Life’s been chaos) but I did want to kind of share my thoughts on the movie and see if anyone else has been thinking over it as well. Firstly, I do want to say that the movie is visually amazing- but that’s to be expected of Disney by now. The character designs, world designs, and creature designs are top notch and I can’t say I have a single complaint about them. Sadly, this strength kind of adds to one of the first problems with the movie. The Lore: This movie presents something truly interesting and unique, but I feel that a standard 90 minute, one film runtime works against this element more than it adds to it. You’re given a reader’s digest version of a complicated history, the geography, and the cultures of the world within the first few minutes of the film. There’s nothing wrong with