My favourite part was the very beginning, until the title. Beautiful cinematography, it looked very promising, but then the film quickly went downhill from there. It's a sad example of what happens when instead of making the viewer feel something, you just tell them about that something. It doesn't work and feels very contrived. And as if the overly descriptive voice-over wasn't enough, there is also never-ending music to tell you exactly what you should be feeling in every scene. There is nothing left to discover by yourself. Instead of going on an adventure, if feels like reading an essay about lost childhood written by a boring, sentimental middle-aged person. "Beasts of the Southern Wild" felt fresh and bursting with life, and this feels like the exact opposite, although I can see an attempt to create something similar visually. I kept watching until the end, although to be honest I wanted to stop after the first quarter.
