2022, Peggy Holmes (Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings) -- download
Black cats are Halloween, right?
But not this black cat. Bob (Simon Pegg, Mission Impossible) is a magical black cat, a luck cat. Wait, aren't black cats supposed to be unlucky? I am sure the movie explains it, but I forget. Anywayz, Sam (Eva Noblezada, Yellow Rose) is the real main character, a girl with loads of unluckiness. A teenage orphan aging out of the system, she has an incredible knack for being at the wrong end of a Rube Goldberg machine style series of circumstances, i.e. VERY unlucky. Until the day she finds a lucky penny. But then she almost immediately loses it. It was Bob's coin and he breaks his own rules by not only talking to her, but also explaining why he needs that coin back. Turns out the penny is part of an elaborate Monsters Inc style industry that takes place in the Land of Luck. Luck as a commodity? Sounds too good to Sam so she follows Bob through his magical portal and ends up in said magical land.
What follows after is a typical Pixar-Disney style animated flick, charming and witty and full of comedy and colourful characters, which unfortunately is far too top heavy to keep attention. Sure, complicated fantasy industries are what dreams (luck) are made of, and we generally love Willy Wonky peeks behind the machinery. But this movie ends up adding listless extra complications, and unneeded twists and turns, probably to distract us from the boring plot. Just goes to show that sticking John Lasseter into a company doesn't mean immediate gold. It might have the opposite effect, in fact, and maybe they should have paid attention to Emma Thompson (and the original director) leaving the flick because of Lasseter's hiring. Talk about horror shows.
Ba dump pssssh.
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