It was a sunny day when I entered a theater to watch a series of animated films nominated for Oscars. This long and boring retro-sci-fi was the second movie, and it was grim and death-obsessed. The creator is talented at drawing, but has no ability to draw you into a story. He is a maker of moods, not a teller of tales. A captain, a navigator, and a scientist go on a voyage, and discover a creature that can, when cooked, cure a disease that is plaguing the land. Before they can carry the creature home, it eats everyone. It's a gloomy cartoon that seems never to end, and once it ends, it leaves you feeling empty.
It was fashioned like a Jules Verne tale--it takes place in a 19th century milieu, but is filled with gadgets and contraptions that suggest a vision of the future past. Heavy machines laden with gears and dripping oil transport the travelers through the air. Everyplace they go floats in the air, like islands in the ocean. This would be nice if it were pretty, but it's all done in dark shadows, in an atmosphere filled with grime and dark clouds.
It was fashioned like a Jules Verne tale--it takes place in a 19th century milieu, but is filled with gadgets and contraptions that suggest a vision of the future past. Heavy machines laden with gears and dripping oil transport the travelers through the air. Everyplace they go floats in the air, like islands in the ocean. This would be nice if it were pretty, but it's all done in dark shadows, in an atmosphere filled with grime and dark clouds.