I just watched Missing Link for the first time, it’s another movie released in 2019 like the monstrosity called Ugly Dolls.
Missing Link is produced by LAIKA and Annapurna Pictures. A lot of you are going to recognize LAIKA, they produced many stop motion animation movies such as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, they hold the world record for largest stop motion puppet, The Skeleton Demon in Kubo and the Two Strings, 18 feet tall and believed to be one of if not the most complicated puppets. LAIKA has achieved great things for stop motion animation and set new records for movies of all kinds so I was excited to see what Missing Link had to offer.
In the first second the animation immediately caught my attention, it was beautiful, almost entrancing. The distinct style really puts you in the world and takes you out of reality. Just what you’d expect from LAIKA.
I won’t go into detail about the whole movie but I will say that it has 88% on rotten tomatoes and 6.7/10 on IMDB. I feel like it should’ve maybe gotten higher but maybe that’s my LAIKA bias speaking.
I did quite enjoy this movie, it was fun to watch and it made me laugh, especially the fact that every single animal in this movie had front facing eyes, that just made it so much better. The birds with front facing eyes will appear in my nightmares lol.
I do think it could’ve been better if the main character had more of a reason to be so obsessed with the stupid club of grown ass man children, or maybe he was more anti-social or something. Idk I just feel like he could’ve been more interesting.
I do wish that there was maybe more on the edge of your seat with worry type scenes, it would’ve made the adventure part of the movie better, because often times the scenes where you worry about the characters are quickly resolved before you have a chance to be worried.
So anyway, fun movie. I would say 7.7/10 but that’s an unappetizing number so 8/10