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First Reviews for 'Psiconautas'. Animation, Adult to the core

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Oersted

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Here is a trailer

https://vimeo.com/139575495


Synopsis

Teenagers 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.
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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 Dinky’s 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; I’ll 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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rainz

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This looks awesome!!
Wonder if it is coming to Australia sometime..I can't find anything on it just yet.
 

Oersted

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Saw this at LFF last year, was brilliant and yeah it's an incredibly depressing world.

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Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children
Leave it to an animated film to be the most imaginative, disturbing, and depressing film to see this year. It paints a very surreal post-industrial future dystopia with mouse gangs, fireflies as spirits of the dead, drug addiction, demons, and mental illness. If you're a fan of Angel's Egg, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Watership Down, keep it on your radar.
 

Munti

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Movie looks great. I'm interested.

For a taste of Alberto Vázquez's famous 'perturbaciones mentales', his previous award-winning animated short Sangre de Unicornio is officially available on its entirety here:

SANGRE DE UNICORNIO (UNICORN BLOOD SHORT FILM) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEc3xX2-qiM

Thanks for this link. It reminds me of this short Old Fangs. I'm fascinated in such animations, although they also scare me at the same time
 
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