Here is a trailer
https://vimeo.com/139575495
Synopsis
ReviewsTeenagers Birdboy and Dinky have decided to escape from an island devastated by ecological catastrophe: Birdboy by shutting himself off from the world, Dinky by setting out on a dangerous voyage in the hope that Birdboy will accompany her.
The tremendous visuals are paired with a great score. Then there is some terrific sound work in the climax that brings Birdboy's inner demon to terrifying life, rivaled only by its predecessors in the Japanese Kaiju genre.
It is a magnificent achievement in animation to
have something that looks so raw around edges convey so much emotion, wonder and terror. If a haunting pleasure is something that you are looking for, an animation that challenges visually and literally, then seek out Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children.
http://screenanarchy.com/2016/08/fa...en-children-bleak-dark-and-unforgettable.html
It would be very easy for a film that indulges such strong themes of misery and arbitrary suffering to become interminable in the first act and struggle to sustain itself for the length of a feature. Fortunately the writers have the good sense to sprinkle it with moments of absurdist wit in both the visuals, dialogue and character concepts. These include Dinkys sentient, co-dependent alarm clock in perpetual despair at the state of the world, an inflatable rubber duck dinghy with a tormented past and a philosophical piggy bank (I feel so empty, it ruminates with ennui once its contents are stolen). Even in its darker moments humour pokes through effectively; Ill just leave the phrase You made the baby Jesus doll cry blood! here.
Though perhaps a victim of its own pacing at times, Psychonauts boasts enough fluidity of animation, richness of layout and genuinely enchanting visual concepts (not to mention a memorably atmospheric score by Aránzazu Calleja) to warrant special attention as a significant achievement for Spanish animated film.
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/psychonauts-forgotten-children-review/
David Cronenberg would be happy with the inner turmoil of his heroes, especially Birdboy, whose tie never fails to accompany his blood-tied worries. Psiconautas carries through its narrative with an impressively graphic menageries, but it is not showy or flashy or even episodic.
Its characters are the ones you care about; it's the small necklace put in Dinky's ear that ensures that their intentions might somehow be fulfilled -even though not in their world. Adult to the core, one of the most sincere animation features in recent years.
http://www.zippyframes.com/index.ph...n-in-distress&catid=166:reviews&Itemid=100101
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