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Critics Consensus: Birdboy's nihilistic coming-of-age narrative captures innocence lost through surreal, striking animation and caustically optimistic storytelling.
Critic Consensus: Birdboy's nihilistic coming-of-age narrative captures innocence lost through surreal, striking animation and caustically optimistic storytelling.
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (1)
The drawing style bears no resemblance to Japanese anime, yet the narrative tone is remarkably similar, with cute and sinister elements held in suspension by a deadpan cool.
An animated movie about troubled teens, and quite possibly for them as well, because it's so very like them: alternately sweet and scary, tender and violent, dense and scattered, and oh yes, childlike and adult.
And though its dark riches can at moments feel like overload, and its narrative thrust occasionally grows diffuse, the story casts an undeniable spell.
This is a beautiful film, and an ugly one, and the tension between those two sides doesn't abate until the very last scene.
An oft-grisly and always visually dazzling allegorical fantasy that puts funny animals in a post-dystopian semi-wasteland.
Given how rigid and formulaic most mainstream animation is, there's something liberating about watching a traditionally hand-drawn cartoon thumb its nose so gleefully at traditional G-rated storytelling.
Forceful images are scattered throughout the meditative miserablism of Birdboy, but the film is uneven and chilly to the touch.
Enthralling and effortlessly relevant, Birdboy is a searing contemporary fantasy, and often unrelenting in its savage attacks on greed, acquisitiveness, the disposable society, and some not-so-subtle jabs at Spanish Catholicism.
With imagery that shifts seamlessly from the kawaii to the diabolical, not least in a darkly psychedelic sequence near the end, this is a film that really makes its mark.
The images, however grim, are gorgeously rendered, and there is a scintilla of hope to this bleak tale.
Pretty rambling stuff, even for 75 minutes, the story is beautifully rendered on flat panes with deceptive simple lines and a bold, black-and-red-dominated colour palette
Uses the mutability of animated bodies and the inconsistency of animated space to depict some legitimately terrifying moments of unearthly violence.
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