Passable little yarn that feels like it should have bene direct to streaming since the plot just does not feel special enough for a theatrical release.
Familiar themes and character types make up this story of learning to face your fears and beauty in unexpected places.
We begin with what appears to be narration but I was pleasantly surprised to find that this wasn't narration but just his inner monologue for some third party except I was wrong and it was totally just narration to spell out how he is kind of a fraidy cat.
I don't hate this kid or anything and it was cool how they gave him empathic parents who aren't pushy but encourage with a firm hand.
And then anthropomorphized darkness takes him on an unsupervized adventure.
You cannot over think this. I like the idea that the night and the obscure have their own special sense of wonder and they do call out that dark is indeed just the absence of light but why do they have both Sleep AND Insomnia as characters? Doesn't the existence of one suggest the redundancy of the other since that other could just...not do the thing? Does that make sense?
The spirits of the night look fantastic and have a more than adequate report with each other and with darkness and it is charming to see Orion come out of his shell a bit but they lack the build up and pacing and simple panache that would make this feel like a movie rather than an overlong short-film. You know, the kind pixar puts in front of its movies.
They do a lot with the idea of time and...well it's ambitious and it has heart but this is ultimately a little like a children's play: I'm rooting for them to give a good performance, there's no hate there from me but after a point it's like "they didn't make a fool of themselves and I'm glad for that".
Seriously, they did not play it safe with...you know what I won't ruin it.
Familiar themes and character types make up this story of learning to face your fears and beauty in unexpected places.
We begin with what appears to be narration but I was pleasantly surprised to find that this wasn't narration but just his inner monologue for some third party except I was wrong and it was totally just narration to spell out how he is kind of a fraidy cat.
I don't hate this kid or anything and it was cool how they gave him empathic parents who aren't pushy but encourage with a firm hand.
And then anthropomorphized darkness takes him on an unsupervized adventure.
You cannot over think this. I like the idea that the night and the obscure have their own special sense of wonder and they do call out that dark is indeed just the absence of light but why do they have both Sleep AND Insomnia as characters? Doesn't the existence of one suggest the redundancy of the other since that other could just...not do the thing? Does that make sense?
The spirits of the night look fantastic and have a more than adequate report with each other and with darkness and it is charming to see Orion come out of his shell a bit but they lack the build up and pacing and simple panache that would make this feel like a movie rather than an overlong short-film. You know, the kind pixar puts in front of its movies.
They do a lot with the idea of time and...well it's ambitious and it has heart but this is ultimately a little like a children's play: I'm rooting for them to give a good performance, there's no hate there from me but after a point it's like "they didn't make a fool of themselves and I'm glad for that".
Seriously, they did not play it safe with...you know what I won't ruin it.