Abominable (2019)
Directors: Jill Culton, Todd Wilderman. (U)
Animation
Rating: 4/5 - very good lots to enjoy
Synopsis
Teenager Yi (voiced by Chloe Bennett) is denying and ignoring the death of her father the year before, spending her time keeping busy with various to avoid dealing with her loss, much to the consternation of her mother and grandmother.
When she finds an injured Yeti on the roof of her apartment block – hiding from evil scientists who captured him days before – Yi sets off with the Yeti and her friends Peng and Jin to help Yeti return to his home in Everest.
Review by @Reelreviewer
After the grim and gruelling Joker last week, I needed something fluffy to make my drag myself back to the multiplex again.
Thank God then for this delightfully magical and gorgeously animated movie that, where Joker made you want to curl up into a ball and forget the world outside, makes you feel at one with that world and able to embrace the beauty, wonder and love that co-exists with the bad things in life.
Not that there aren't bad things and bad people in Abominable (cue Sarah Paulson voicing the duplicitous scientist and managing to sound like Minnie Driver at times), but life-affirming rather than life-limiting is the watch phrase here.
Recommended viewing - essential if you saw Joker!
Cast & credits
1hr 37 mins/97mins. Dreamworks Animation/Pearl Studio. (U)
Producers: Suzanne Buirgy, Peilin Chou, Dave Polsky.
Writer: Jill Culton.
Camera: Robert Edward Crawford.
Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams.
Sets: Max Boas.
Chloe Bennett, Albert Tsai, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Joseph Izzo, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Paulson, Tsai Chin, Michelle Wong.
