Review of The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily (2019)
Seen in 2024.
I saw a Swedish-language dub with credits in French.
This is probably fun if you read the book as a child, but I did not. This was the first movie I saw that looked to me as if it could have been made with generative AI, when it really had not. The visuals are built on near-flat fields of colour, bowdlerizing Giorgio de Chirico into a common style of picture-book art for toddlers. The first half very often features similar 3D-rendered figures marching in perspective on flat backgrounds, a motif and style that reminded me of meme AI art, because it’s something AI was relatively good at doing in 2024. The storytelling is disjointed, the metaphors uninteresting.