{"id":43109,"date":"2016-08-21T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/kubo-and-the-two-strings-animation-magic-with-a-bravely-melancholy-undertow-review\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:21:16","slug":"kubo-and-the-two-strings-animation-magic-with-a-bravely-melancholy-undertow-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/kubo-and-the-two-strings-animation-magic-with-a-bravely-melancholy-undertow-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019, Animation Magic with a Bravely Melancholy Undertow: REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019, Animation Magic with a Bravely Melancholy Undertow: REVIEW<\/b><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-travisknight.png?resize=480%2C290\" alt=\"kubo-travisknight Kubo and the two strings review\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-travisknight.png?resize=1024%2C619 1024w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-travisknight.png?resize=300%2C181 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-travisknight.png?resize=768%2C464 768w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-travisknight.png?w=1286 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Travis Knight, the director of &ldquo;Kubo and the Two Strings&rdquo; at work<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Kubo and the Two Strings<\/i> begins with Kubo&rsquo;s mother, navigating treacherous waves by slicing them in half with one melodramatic strum on her magical shamisen. The instrument has three strings, not two, but the title can wait. It&rsquo;s time to watch. Kubo&rsquo;s (Art Parkinson)&nbsp;narration warns us to do so closely.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you must blink, do it now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s&nbsp;a handy if redundant warning because who is going to blink during a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laika.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laika<\/a> movie? The animated studio reliably crafts spectacularly intricate stop motion (with some CG boosting). When Kubo&rsquo;s mother splits the waves desperate to save the baby in her boat, it was hard not to think of Moses, twice over, both a babe in on the water&nbsp;and an ocean-parter. Religiously suggestive folklore with magic turns out to be perfect fit for Laika because they always bring the eye popping images and movie magic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-evilsisters.jpg?resize=480%2C270\" alt=\"kubo-evilsisters\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-evilsisters.jpg?w=480 480w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-evilsisters.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-evilsisters.jpg?resize=150%2C84 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>We jump ahead a few years to Kubo&rsquo;s childhood. He&rsquo;s now a fine storyteller who&nbsp;magically commands&nbsp;origami with his mother&rsquo;s shamisen to help weave his tales. It doesn&rsquo;t take a genius to realize that the story he&rsquo;s repeatedly telling, about a samurai named Hanzo and an evil Moon King is his own (how much so he doesn&rsquo;t yet fully grasp) and the movie we&rsquo;re watching is <i>also<\/i> that story, folding itself into new shapes like the origami.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubosmom.gif?resize=200%2C114\" alt=\"kubosmom\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">It&rsquo;s a pity then that the production is marred by unfortunate voice casting. Animated films have been undermining themselves for some years now with their heavy reliance on famous faces, when what they need is dexterous voices.<\/p>\n<p>McConaughey is funny at times in a dual role&nbsp;but his ultra&nbsp;familiar Texas drawl is quite an uncomfortable fit for an animated Asian story (reminding us frequently that we&rsquo;re watching yet another movie wherein Asian roles were cast with white actors). Worse still is Charlize Theron, a great actress surely, but she <i>isn&rsquo;t <\/i>great because of the timbre of her vocal chords. Her voice work in the film&rsquo;s most crucial dual role is quite dull. These decidedly unmagical familiar voices do the unusual and mysterious story no good whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-beetledad.jpg?resize=480%2C300\" alt=\"kubo-beetledad\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-beetledad.jpg?w=790 790w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-beetledad.jpg?resize=300%2C188 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-beetledad.jpg?resize=768%2C480 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>And besides, who honestly goes to animated movies based on how famous the voices are? They don&rsquo;t work that way unless it&rsquo;s a very unique case (like Ellen DeGeneres in<i> Finding Dory<\/i>) so studios are just wasting their money&nbsp;on huge stars.<\/p>\n<p>The story, too convoluted for its own good perhaps, rescues itself from&nbsp;its arguably clumsy plot and off-voices&nbsp;with intermittent&nbsp;movie magic and interesting&nbsp;characters like a beetle warrior, a bossy monkey, the&nbsp;Moon king and his daughter&nbsp;witches in masks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kubo<\/em> is also blessed with a bravely melancholy undertow that sets it apart yet again from other animated films and actually lets it speak to themes of grief, death, and forgiveness. If you blink towards the final battle, (Kubo did warn you not to) you might miss the title bit&nbsp;when Kubo arms his shamisen with two special strings. It&rsquo;s a beautifully judged moment, braiding the film&rsquo;s themes into its climactic set piece.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-painting.png?resize=480%2C219\" alt=\"kubo-painting kubo review\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-painting.png?w=731 731w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kubo-painting.png?resize=300%2C137 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Laika, the animated studio that brought us <em>Kubo<\/em> has now made four full length features. The first three&nbsp;<em>Coraline<\/em> (2009), <em>ParaNorman<\/em> (2012), and <em>The Boxtrolls<\/em> (2014) each earned a&nbsp;deserved&nbsp;Oscar nomination for Best Animated Film. They&rsquo;ve lost to either Pixar and Disney features each time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kubo and the Two Strings<\/em>&nbsp;is magnificent looking but, lacking the instant-hooks and clever conceit of a&nbsp;<em>Zootopia<\/em> or the behemoth success and easy heart of a&nbsp;<em>Finding Dory,<\/em> it doesn&rsquo;t look likely to change Laika&rsquo;s fate with the public or the Oscars. All things considered, even if I sadly admit&nbsp;that I think it&rsquo;s the least of their four features, <em>Kubo<\/em> is another reminder that we need Laika in our movie world. Their commitment to true originality, hands on&nbsp;craftsmanship, and in-movie specificity sets them far apart from all the corporate driven animation moviegoers regularly flock to in much greater numbers and that Oscar regularly rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Like&nbsp;<em>Kubo<\/em>, this tremendous group of artists are searching and striving to master their considerable magic. One year soon it will be their turn to triumph.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/08\/kubo-review\/\">&lsquo;Kubo and the Two Strings&rsquo;, Animation Magic with a Bravely Melancholy Undertow: REVIEW<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=p5djb9g33JM:3jH7kvONrJk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=p5djb9g33JM:3jH7kvONrJk:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=p5djb9g33JM:3jH7kvONrJk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=p5djb9g33JM:3jH7kvONrJk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=p5djb9g33JM:3jH7kvONrJk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=p5djb9g33JM:3jH7kvONrJk:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=p5djb9g33JM:3jH7kvONrJk:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/p5djb9g33JM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/p5djb9g33JM\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/p5djb9g33JM\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019, Animation Magic with a Bravely Melancholy Undertow: REVIEW Travis Knight, the director of &ldquo;Kubo and the Two Strings&rdquo; at work Kubo and the Two Strings begins with Kubo&rsquo;s mother, navigating treacherous waves by slicing them in half with one melodramatic strum on her magical shamisen. The instrument has three strings, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/kubo-and-the-two-strings-animation-magic-with-a-bravely-melancholy-undertow-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019, Animation Magic with a Bravely Melancholy Undertow: REVIEW<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019, Animation Magic with a Bravely Melancholy Undertow: REVIEW - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/kubo-and-the-two-strings-animation-magic-with-a-bravely-melancholy-undertow-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019, Animation Magic with a Bravely Melancholy Undertow: REVIEW - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019, Animation Magic with a Bravely Melancholy Undertow: REVIEW Travis Knight, the director of &ldquo;Kubo and the Two Strings&rdquo; at work Kubo and the Two Strings begins with Kubo&rsquo;s mother, navigating treacherous waves by slicing them in half with one melodramatic strum on her magical shamisen. 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