Wildwood (2026)
Directed by Travis Knight
Prue and her classmate Curtis are drawn into a magical forest filled with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and formidable adversaries as they embark on a desperate quest to rescue Prue's abducted baby brother from a murder of crows led by a mysterious woman named Alexandra.
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What critics say influenced Wildwood
También hay algo de Laberinto, de Jim Henson, en la creación de un mundo poblado por seres singulares…
Echoes of The Lord of the Rings (2001-03), The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Labyrinth (1986) ring loudly through this adventure.
Like “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) or Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth” (1986), it can be dark and even disturbing in a few scenes.
The film echoes The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and even Princess Mononoke in its willingness to explore humanity's uglier aspects through a fantastical lens…
The nature-centric magic and anthropomorphic characters Prue and Curtis come up against will no doubt feel familiar to any fans of portal fantasies like Spirited Away, Labyrinth or The Chronicles of Narnia (not to mention Laika’s own Coraline)…
Wildwood reminded me of high-fantasy films from the ’80s, movies like Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and The Neverending Story…
El 'Cristal oscuro' de una nueva generación quizás aún sin conciencia del fin de los días.
Wildwood reminded me of high-fantasy films from the ’80s, movies like Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and The Neverending Story…
The film echoes The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and even Princess Mononoke in its willingness to explore humanity's uglier aspects through a fantastical lens…
Films like 2009’s Coraline and 2016’s Kubo and the Two Strings, to name a few, transported audiences into visually stunning worlds without ever relinquishing the engaging, and at times dark, narrative beats.
…a fantastical mix of “Coraline,” “Narnia” and, for emotionally bruised millennials in the know, the “Redwall” series…
Not quite on par with the company’s masterpiece, “Coraline,”…
Laika has created some truly stunning worlds in the past – the twisted buildings of Coraline, or the dancing leaves of Kubo and the Two Strings – but nothing compares to the one you’re invited to on this occasion.
While I hesitate to say the film is scary in the Coraline mold, it goes to some very dark places…
Wildwood touches upon the themes of loss and family dynamics prevalent in Laika’s screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novella Coraline.
Director
Hayao Miyazaki
Critics invoke Miyazaki by name, and compare Wildwood to 2 of Miyazaki’s films.
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On Miyazaki, rather than any one film
…del cine de Hayao Miyazaki en la relación entre los personajes y la naturaleza…
…the equally dark, unsanitized female empowerment tales of Hayao Miyazaki, where wonder and grimness co-exist…
…equally reminiscent of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, and Princess Mononoke…
The gorgeous depictions of greenery, and its backdrop to gritty war, recall the splendour of Princess Mononoke.
Echoes of The Lord of the Rings (2001-03), The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Labyrinth (1986) ring loudly through this adventure.
The film echoes The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and even Princess Mononoke in its willingness to explore humanity's uglier aspects through a fantastical lens…
The nature-centric magic and anthropomorphic characters Prue and Curtis come up against will no doubt feel familiar to any fans of portal fantasies like Spirited Away, Labyrinth or The Chronicles of Narnia (not to mention Laika’s own Coraline)…
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Critics invoke Hitchcock by name, and compare Wildwood to 1 of Hitchcock’s films.
Visuals
On Hitchcock, rather than any one film
One Hitchcock homage later, the birds have stolen Prue’s baby brother.
…y de Los pájaros, de Alfred Hitchcock, en la inquietud que provoca la amenaza de los cuervos…
…with Knight soon recreating the haunting image from Hitchcock’s The Birds, a murder of crows swarming over a playground ready to feast on unsuspecting children…
Yes, comparisons to Hitchcock’s “The Birds” are inevitable, and the set-up remains as terrifying as ever.
It also pays cheeky homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” with a scene in which hundreds of crows alight on every available perch, waiting for the right moment to strike.
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They created a “Braveheart”-style battle one frame at a time…
The grand finale is a battle sequence that would put “Braveheart” to shame…
…the animators have fun satirizing their city in an affectionate, “Portlandia” sort of way…
…those vaguely hipster Portlandia vibes are very much present in Wildwood…
…does continue to occasionally recall Labyrinth as well as The Wizard of Oz – the vaster books more so than the streamlined classic film…
It’s one thing to be The Wizard of Oz, which greatly condenses its source novel to turn a long tale into a simple daydream to win the day…
Director
Phil Tippett
Critics invoke Tippett by name, and compare Wildwood to 1 of Tippett’s films.
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On Tippett, rather than any one film
…that would be a distant nightmare for anyone short of Richard Williams or Phil Tippett…
Sure, nothing here approaches the hellish nightmare fuel present in the R-rated, Phil Tippett-directed Mad God, but make no mistake: Wildwood more than earns its PG-13 rating.
…rare for stop-motion, which tends to alternate between extremes of family-friendly Aardman and Phil Tippett’s Mad God…
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While there are some amazing stop-motion films in the past decade, like Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022), Wildwood really raises the bar…
…a Guillermo del Toro version of Pinocchio became the second stop-motion film to win the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2023…
Wes Anderson’s acclaimed 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox…
…production designer Nelson Lowry ("Fantastic Mr. Fox," "Kubo and the Two Strings")…
…his stop-motion follow-up Isle of Dogs…