GentleAir Reviews

  Copyright © Focus Features, The Lego Group, Tremolo Productions, I Am Other Title : Piece by Piece (2024) Director : Morgan Neville Release Date : October 11, 2024     A music documentary biopic animated with Legos was one of the least expected ideas to come out this year. When someone hears the terms "documentary" or "biopic", they think live-action as in involving the real singers. On the other hand, Lego animated movies started off with The Lego Movie until it got further and further into whatever this is. What a strange idea! For this review, today's movie is Piece by Piece , the new animated Pharrell Williams biopic documentary! With a budget of $8.1 million, the movie surprisingly grossed $16 million, marking this movie a box office success. Not only that but it also gained positive reviews from both critics and audiences, particularly for its vibrant animation as well as the star-studded voice acting and catchy songs. Thanks to the big use of creat

  Copyright © 20th Century Fox, Reel FX Animation Studios Title : The Book of Life (2014) Director : Jorge R. Gutierrez Release Date : October 17, 2014     Even though Halloween is coming close, this is a film that would be a pretty similar thing. A week ago, the movie celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and people would still remember it to this day. Today's movie is called The Book of Life , an animated film about the Day of the Dead as well as Reel FX's first movie! Released back on October 17 of 2014, the movie became a straight-up box office success as it grossed $100 million against a $50 million budget. Additionally, critics and audiences praised it, leading to its Golden Globe nomination for the Best Animated Film award. Seven years later, a similar film, Coco , was released on November 22 of 2017, and people saw the striking similarities between the two movies based on the same concept. As Reel FX utilizes its gorgeous animation and meaningful fairy tale, The Book

  Copyright © Netflix, Huayi Brothers, Cinesite Title : Extinct Director : David Silverman Release Date : November 19, 2021     This movie is one of the lesser-known Netflix original animated movies. Compared to other movies like Back to the Outback and Wish Dragon , this one did not get as much recognition due to its exclusive distribution to the service. Today's movie review is the movie Extinct , an animated movie themed around extinct creatures! Back in 2021, it was first released in the United Kingdom and China, until it hit Netflix worldwide a few months later. When it got released, the movie was met with mixed reception, as reviewers liked the animation and voice-acting but criticized the story and execution. Even though this may look like a solid kids adventure at first glance, Extinct happens to be a revolutionary mishap of glossy animation as well as...dumb writing and execution. Summary    Two Flummel siblings, Op (Rachel Bloom) and Ed (Adam DeVine), accidentally w

  Copyright © Viva Pictures, China Film Animation Title : Dragonkeeper Director : Salvador Sim ó, Li Jianping Based on : Dragonkeeper by Carole Wilkinson Release Date : May 3, 2024     Viva Pictures may be a nuance in today's animated film library. One of their films this year, Epic Tails , is not so bad but it should have done better in its writing and execution. In November, they are going to release Hitpig , which will be a film that uses pop-culture references and a star-studded cast for attention. Nothing else is good in the matter. For today, this review will be about Dragonkeeper , a Spanish-Chinese animated film based on the book of the same name! Its first releases were in Spain and China until Viva Pictures got the rights to release it in the United States this May. Against a budget of €24 million equaling around $31 million, the movie has done so terribly at the box office with a gross of $3.8 million. Albeit it does have its issues in both the animation and small

  Copyright © Netflix, DreamWorks Animation Television Title : The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist Director : Kevin Peaty, Christo Stamboliev Based on : The Bad Guys by Pierre Perifel (film) and Aaron Blabey (books) Release Date : October 3, 2024     Still continuing with DreamWorks' animated library of flicks this year, this one is another recent find. However, this will not be counted as a movie because it is classified as a TV special, which is a TV show by itself. This means this will not count as a movie review, primarily for the 2024 line of reviews, but reviewed anyway as this comes from an incredible movie. This special review is about The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist , the Halloween special of The Bad Guys franchise, which got released today! Just like the holiday special from last year, The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday , this special was also released on Netflix as a streaming original project. Although this may not be anything bad, The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist is not much of a