Beautiful production design and elegantly scored attempt at emulating classic animated horror for audiences of all ages. Although it mostly succeeds on an audiovisual front, the story is exhaustingly overstuffed, leaving the characters flat and underdeveloped. Ambitiously, it squeezes a dozen progressive ideas it can into 100 minutes, failing to develop them enough to craft insightful commentary or funny satire. There's a point at which including progressive themes can come off as pandering rather than sincere representation, Wendell & Wild wavers. There are so few surprises or conflicts that can't be easily predicted. If the film had compelling characters it'd be enough to get by, but as is we barely know anything about them. Before we have a reason to care about people they're gone and a new character is introduced. Although the voice acting is superb, it doesn't help that most of them are annoyingly one underdeveloped.
Review of Wendell & Wild
