| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
An ultimately-moving tribute to both the arc of anyone’s life and the intelligence of the audience - that, for once, is not held in contempt - that entertains wonderfully.
Where it fails is in a lack of human details that would have deepened the experience. Why do the couple - unable to have children - not adopt? What do they actually do for a living. These details are needed to compensate for the fact that CGI is not lifelike enough for anything other than children’s cartoons.
Its Wonderful Life premise is slowly introduced into a life that should have gone in one direction but ended-up going in another; leading to wasted regret. This is sharply contrasted with the villain’s biography, which is mired both in the past and in self-obsession.
Everything here eventually fits - although at first it seems rather random and arbitrary in its plotting - even the young Wilderness Explorer who is completely ignorant of the real wilderness. There are no plot digressions of any kind and the characters’ backstory is subtly handled with a minimum of deft (albeit too few) brushstrokes to let us know what is really going on inside their heads.
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