Ferdinand (2017)
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow. But one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid— and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen.
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The visual artistry of the team at Blue Sky (“Ice Age,” the recent “Peanuts” film) gives the movie a delightful palette upon which Ferdinand’s story unfolds.
The latest offering from the company best known for the “Ice Age” franchise is “Ferdinand,” a sweet and straightforward family film adapted from 1936’s “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson.
Blue Sky brings the same animation style as in its Ice Age franchise, with likeable talking animals who have big eyes and exaggerated physicalities.
Blue Sky is 20th Century Fox’s animation studio; its best-known previous films are the Ice Age and Rio series, both of which rely heavily on abominable gender stereotypes most at home in 1950s sitcoms.
Then there’s Blue Sky’s blandly colorful computer animation, which has barely evolved since the premiere of Ice Age 15 years ago; although the studio succeeds at rendering landscapes with painterly composition, everything else is a grab bag of vague, oppressively bright images that say as little as possible.
An English-language film from the Brazilian director Carlos Saldanha, a veteran of the Rio and Ice Age franchises, Ferdinand was adapted from The Story of Ferdinand, the children’s classic by Munro Leaf.
Written and Directed by Rian Johnson ("Looper," "The Brothers Bloom," "Brick").