A while back Eva and I watched Over the Moon

[conuly]

and since then she sometimes plays one of the songs (it is quite catchy), which has kept this movie in my thoughts.

So, I have to say, the design for Lunaria is something else. Clearly the artists had a vision, and they just ran with it. Good for them. If the writers and songwriters had been similarly bold and inspired, this would've been a better movie, but as it is, it's... average. It's an average kid's movie. It goes exactly where you expect at every point, in exactly the way you expect. Even the songs, though catchy enough, are... pretty much what you expect. Also, they randomly brought along our main character's stepbrother to the moon with her and then forgot to give him anything to do, which just irritates the crap out of me. If he can't advance the plot, can he advance anybody's character development? Or get any development of his own? No, apparently not. If he has no job in the story, he should stay home.

Oh well. There is a pangolin. I thought he was a dog at first, but he's definitely a pangolin. I do like pangolins!

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Comments

[mtbc]

I too like pangolins. (-:

[conuly]

Everybody likes them!

[larryhammer]

It is rather average -- disappointingly so. The best part was Chang-e's red robe (the designer even got a credit for it). Not only did the stepbrother not have anything to do, but Fei-fei's mother wasn't fully acknowledged in the final scene -- and grieving for her was the entire point of the story.

Eaglet thought it was okay at the time, but has downgraded it to "too weird" and says they don't like it -- even Abominable now ranks above it. (For heritage reasons, we watch every kids movie about or set in China that we can. Generally, Eaglet is on board with this program.)

[conuly]

Fei-fei's mother wasn't fully acknowledged in the final scene -- and grieving for her was the entire point of the story.

I think moving on past your grief is the point of the story - but you're right, moving on doesn't mean you forget!

[larryhammer]

Yeah, I phrased that badly. They tried to hint her into the final scene, but didn't do it well.

[shadowkat]

Had exactly the same reaction to it - the animation was interesting, and I liked the pangolin. But the rest? Uninspired. And the step-brother didn't work for me at all.

But..it's very pretty and colorful. I think the animators had fun.

[conuly]

I hope they can all get work on some other project with better writing.

[shadowkat]

Agreed. The animators were rather good, I was impressed. Wish they did She-Rah. She-Rah has good writing, but bad animation. Seriously, it appears to be one or the other, at the moment. Avatar was among the few that had both. (I am admittedly very picky when it comes to animation, more so than most.)

[greghousesgf]

Pangolins are cool.
One piece of trivia I've always found interesting not mentioned in the color article: Navajo uses the same word to mean green or blue.

[conuly]

That's common in many languages.

[kengr]

A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’

Well, that answers a philosophical question I first encountered in my teens. Basically, when (say) you and I look at something and agree that it is "green" are our brains actually "seeing" the same thing?

Now we know the answer is yes.