Forgotten Island Review: A New Animation Era Takes Hold

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DreamWorks is pushing CG animation further away from the polished Pixar-style look that dominated Hollywood for decades, and Forgotten Island might be one of the clearest examples yet. Directed by Puss in Boots: The Last Wish filmmaker Joel Crawford alongside Januel Mercado, the Filipino mythology-inspired adventure follows childhood best friends Jo and Raisa as they stumble onto the mythical island of Nakali. What follows is a frantic journey filled with folklore creatures, broken animation rules, rapid-fire visual jokes, and Dave Franco stealing scenes as the mysterious Roar. The movie belongs to the increasingly stylized generation of CG animation that exploded after Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Character designs stretch, physics disappear when the joke demands it, and entire punchlines can flash by in a single frame. The animation and comedy work together so closely that the visuals become part of the script. But underneath all that chaos is a story about two friends headi

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