Since the death of her husband a year ago, Louise has been visiting her grave every noon. One day, in the cemetery, she meets Benoît, a hardened single farmer who has just lost her mother. While everything seems to oppose them, they will get closer.
A refreshing twist is that all the kids’ powers are…kind of useless. There’s a kid who can only move in slow motion, a kid who has every power in the world but can only use them randomly, and our main character Missy who has no powers at all. The thesis of the film seems to be that it doesn’t matter what kind of powers you have, its the way you use them, which is good for the warm and fuzzies.
Elsewhere is less than fourteen minutes long, but it delivers a more emotional impact than most feature-length films.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
Disney has long since had a reputation for creating underwhelming sequels. Is Zootopia 2 any different?
This feels like the creative team wanted to make a body horror film, but the studio wanted to make another generic blockbuster.
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.
