Wendell & Wild (Henry Selick) [Netflix]

pixelburp · 06-09-2022 06:25PM #1

The guy behind Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas, ~~Kubo & the Two Strings, Boxtrolls and Paranorman~~ returns with a new feature for Netflix.

Never any mistaking his style for anything else, such a gothic bedfellow to early Tim Burton. Film arrives October 28.

https://youtu.be/KNUZsLfAMqk

Fysh · 06-09-2022 07:11PM

That looks really good! Netflix is lining up some really promising options for this Halloween.

(Side note - I still don't understand how Kubo & The Two Strings didn't do absolute gangbusters at the box office. But that's a conversation for somewhere else, I suppose...)

pixelburp · 06-09-2022 08:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119581254#Comment_119581254

I realise I've got my directors all mixed up; Selick didn't direct any of those I listed excepted Nightmare and Coraline. Man, it's a long day, my brain's shot.

Though yeah I agree about Kubo 100%, its failure at the box office was a deep shame.

pixelburp · 10-10-2022 01:57PM

Full trailer released; looks ... kinda bonkers. Love the look of it.

https://youtu.be/tJp5pLsXhgo

pixelburp · 05-11-2022 08:50PM

Really enjoyed this. A great mix that was a kind of goofy, playful macabre that didn't shy from the ghoulish nature of its undead characters. Lots of child-friendly gallows humour. Not Selick's best but a good reminder how offbeat and smart American animation can be when it tries - or is allowed to try.

Was a bit of a mess though, with about a dozen ideas thrown in the air and many either got short shrift or just kinda fizzled but there was so much charm and good energy in the thing I had too much fun to mind too much.

Also, the true villain being

Private Prisons

was a laugh.

Wendell & Wild (Henry Selick) [Netflix]

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