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22. Abominable

Inviso: 13
Johnbobb: 15
Red: 15
Ermine: 21
Evillord: 33
Karo: 37

Total: 134

Inviso: This felt like a Disney movie, specifically a standalone Disney movie that didnt utterly fail at trying to craft the story behind a sequel. Thats not even an insult; I think Disney is very good, (when theyre trying) at crafting an emotional narrative, and capitalizing on sentimentality. On paper, weve seen tons of kids befriend a strange creature, and then government and/or big business thugs try to capture said creature storylines, and a lot of them can be hackneyed. This didnt feel like that at all, but rather they gave us a main character whos directionless in the wake of her fathers death, and via a magical beast, shes able to go on the road trip hed always planned on taking her. She comes to grips with her fathers passing, while simultaneously helping to reunite the yeti family. Also, this is just a minor thing, but I loved how cartoonishly evil the bad guy was. Its just more interesting to watch a bad guy whos just bad, and not misunderstood.

Johnbobb: I like this trend of modern animated movies exploring characters of different races and ethnicities and their cultures while still making the movies entertaining and beautiful to look ata. This one does a lot of stuff right, and stands out as the best of the weirdly significant amount of animated Bigfoot/Yeti movies to come out in the last few years

Red: Somehow not the only movie on this list from 2019 about befriending a Yeti and trying to take it home. The magical yeti makes for some fun scenes but I really think where this movie sets itself apart it bit is the dynamic with the villains. Taking a character type we've probably seen a thousand times and then giving them just a little twist to be a villain works. Or at least compared to a lot of the villains on this list works. Probably say this like 10 times on this list but everything not a sequel is automatically refreshing.

Ermine: This movie was alright.

Had some really awful and weird dialog that made no sense and god I hated that little kid character.

But by far the most unbelievable thing in this film is a huge billboard that says VISIT EVEREST.

Really?

No one wants to visit Everest. You'll die. So put that shit away.

Run of the mill movie at the end of the day, nothing that offensive but nothing that really stuck out as amazing in any way.

Evillord: A few movies on this list are obvious garbage, but this one just feels kind of rote. The plot also stops working later on because the Yeti's magic can easily solve every problem the heroes encounter, though at least it makes for some nice visuals.

Karo: So there's this young girl in China who befriends a magical Yeti who heartless adults are trying to hunt down for experimentation in the typical ET storyline. Next they would normally be chased by the army but in China everything is perfect including the military so the bad guys are a private force of multinational corporate poachers lead by a pair of western capitalist pig dogs. Remember kids, foreigners are evil and the government is your friend! If you disagree you will be run over by a tank.
In order to take Totoro back to Mount Everest, Yi and her two annoying friends travel across the country in a boring, soulless endeavor seemingly more focused in showing off potential Chinese tourist destinations than having any real character development. Hey guys, come and see all these cool places in China you can visit, like those pretty mountains, this humongous Buddha statue, or the Uyghur harmony learning centers... ahh wait no don't look oh fuck
I just was not interested in anything going on, nor was I affected by the movie's many awkward attempts to do 'feels', and the whole thing feels half-assed and phoned in on nearly every level.
With a rote plot and substandard animation, Abominable cannot even measure up to the middling standards of modern Dreamworks, let alone the industry at large. Is it a sobering look into a future where Hollywood is stuck licking the butthole of the CCP in order to get to the mega china bux, and clearly the one thing the world fucking needs is more assaults on artistic freedom. Fuck you.