Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

isaacdransy I do not at all like it when a movie makes me think! EVERYTHING should be told to me! Not a single detail should not be thought provoking, nor engaging! that's what brilliant masterpieces such as skyscraper, Incredibles 2 (the first one was horrifically awful), and Starwars: episode II: The phantom clone sith. It's animation is HORRIBLE!!! because it lacks TRADITIONAL 3 DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GENERATED ANIMATION! IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S DONE IN CRAYON AND PASTEL PAINT! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE OCCUPIED BY IMAGERY GOING INTO MY BRAINLESS SKULL!!!!!! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HAVE FUN WHILE WATCHING A MOVIE, IF I HAVE TO INTERPRET ITS MEANING WITH MYYYYY HEEEEEAD!Overall, I would highly recommend this film to find that review to be satyrical. If you agreed with any of the points I made, don't watch. Just go ahead and watch what those other filthy bumbloids are watching. Skyscraper just came out, awful movie but if you wanna see it, go ahead. Peace yo

Dave McClain I've never written a review like this before, but after seeing the Brazilian animated feature "Boy Meets World" (PG, 1:20), I had almost no idea what I had just seen! There must've been something of quality up on that screen because this movie won plenty of film festival awards – both in the U.S. and overseas – and was a nominee at the 88th Annual Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature Film… but I'm still at a loss. In the year before I saw this movie, I had seen and reviewed 250 films (and 400 in the previous three years) and many of them were… "unusual" – American indies, foreign films from all over the world, films that were highly symbolic, films with plot holes, films in which the chronology of the story jumped all over the place, films with open-ended finales, etc., but none of those experiences prepared me for this one. But I do enjoy a challenge, so I'm still going to take a shot at describing this movie… Animated images, hand-drawn by writer-director Alê Abreu, tell the story of a small boy named Cuca who lives in a remote village in a fictional Latin American country. Cuca's father packs his suitcase and takes a train to the big city to find work. Cuca feels lonely and doesn't understand what his life has become, so he also packs a suitcase and takes the same train in search of his father. What unfolds before Cuca's eyes is a bewildering cornucopia of sights and sounds – from glittering skyscrapers to local musicians to an ominous-looking formation of soldiers marching in the streets. Little Cuca navigates this unfamiliar terrain with the help of a kind stranger, determined to find his father and reunite his family.Most of the images are simple line drawings, but they are very colorful, and there are bits of photo-realistic imagery mixed in with some of the scenes. While the boy's only facial features are oblong black eyes and rosy cheeks, the background of every scene contains a wide variety of shapes and colors. The shots of the train, for example, look like an animated photo of a train and the street signs in the big city are cropped, upside-down photos of what look like actual street signs. There is very little dialog and what's there is backwards Portuguese… but there's plenty of interesting music. Accompanying the varied imagery are examples of similarly varied Latin American musical styles, including pan-flute, samba and Brazilian hip-hop. In this film, the music is every bit as essential as the diverse and stunning visuals."Boy and the World" is an animated journey like no other, but would have been better if it were easier to understand. The basic story is easy enough to follow, but most of what happens along the way left me trying to figure out what I was seeing. The story is being told through the eyes of a boy who looks to be about four-years-old. Thinking about it that way, the movie makes sense. Unfortunately, I am not a four-year-old boy from a remote Brazilian village, so most of the movie didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. The director has said that he sees his film as a documentary of the history of Latin America. I didn't get that, although his efforts at contrasting urban vs. rural, rich vs. poor, and innocence vs. victimization do come across in a subtle and meaningful way. And, admittedly not to be lost in all this is a little boy's efforts to bring his family together again, and discovering the big, bad, confusing, wonderful world in the process. In spite of my own problems in watching this film, there is no diminishing the impressive creativity and artistry that went into making it… and maybe, at the end of the day (or the end of this review), that's all that really matters. "B-"

David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. It may not be Pixar, but this wonderful film from Ale Abreu is absolutely worthy of its Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, though it's heavier on message than story. It's a wonderful reminder that one of the best features of animation is that the look can be unconventional and still be effective.The stick figure boy is on a mission to re-connect with his father, who left the family's country home to find work in the big city. For Abreu's film, the boy's real purpose is to be our tour guide through this exploration of the state of the "civilized" world. It's an adventure that provides the boy (and us) insight into cities, the sea, the countryside and agricultural life. It's also an examination of the loss of childhood innocence as we are exposed to reality.A rare hand-drawn presentation is also mixed-media, as it utilizes a few real news clips to emphasize the cluttered, damaged world. It's a different approach in making the arguments regarding climate change, carbon footprints and socioeconomic imbalance. The hand-drawn core here is more complex than what we initially believe. Colors explode onto the screen, and the visuals often carry multiple meanings in depicting the intended message.Dialogue is minimal and often garbled in a manner that reminds of any adult in the Charlie Brown comics … but we are never confused on what is being conveyed. In addition to the visuals, sound effects play a huge role, as does the music from composers Ruben Feffer and Gustavo Kuriat, and Brazilian jazz favorite Nana Vasconcelos. It's a unique approach to reminding us that our harsh treatment of the planet could play like a horror story or dangerous adventure to the innocent eyes of a child.

drazsika-716-814820 First of all - make sure you are full of energy when sitting down watching this movie.The movie will bring you into a whole new world. Absolutely unknown ways of expressing landscapes, people, feelings, war, nature. An artistic visual trip that'll have shapes, figures and structures staying in your mind while I had hardships following the plot and understand the jumps from certain scenes to next ones and jumps in time.I don't think the movie is even close to my animation favourites from Studio Ghibli (Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of Fireflies, etc.) or for example the movie Waltz with Bashir but I recommend the movie for those who love new solutions and ideas in visual art and animation movies.