Over the Moon (2020)
Directed by Glen Keane
Fueled by memories of her mother, resourceful Fei Fei builds a rocket to the moon on a mission to prove the existence of a legendary moon goddess.
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Seeing as how 2020 has not exactly proven to be a bountiful year in regards to, among many other things, animated feature films--granted, you may have liked "Trolls: World Tour" more than I did but even the first of the year's two Pixar entries, "Onward," proved to be a bit of a misfire--I approached "Over the Moon" with perhaps a greater degree of anticipation due to the participation of late screenwriter Audrey Wells and Glen Keane, the Disney Animation legend (who contributed to the likes of "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin," to name a few) making his long-awaited directorial debut with this freewheeling take on a classic piece of Chinese mythology.
Famous for his work on The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast , director Glen Keane amazes with 3D animation here.
Director Glen Keane, who worked on “The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin” among many others, brings much of his Disney experience to “Over the Moon,” this time making his feature directorial debut.
The animated musical streaming on Netflix Oct. 23 gives off Disney vibes, as it should considering it’s directed by Glen Keane, a 2018 Oscar-winner for the short film “Dear Basketball” about Kobe Bryant’s basketball career and an animator on “The Little Mermaid,” “The Beauty and the Beast,” and “Tangled.”
It's directed by former Disney veteran Glen Keane, who helped bring many 90s classics to life, including "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast."
The director Glen Keane, making his feature debut, is a longtime animator whose storied Disney career includes character work for “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast”; his co-director, John Kahrs, is a Disney and Pixar veteran who made the Oscar-winning animated short “Paperman.”
He quietly pushed the craft forward, embracing new technological breakthroughs on Tarzan and Treasure Planet , before getting stuck in the corporate quagmire while trying to direct his first film for Disney, a movie that would eventually become Tangled .
He quietly pushed the craft forward, embracing new technological breakthroughs on Tarzan and Treasure Planet , before getting stuck in the corporate quagmire while trying to direct his first film for Disney, a movie that would eventually become Tangled .
This is not a complaint: As someone raised on the grief-adjacent “My Neighbor Totoro” (and comforted much later in life by the wisdom and beauty of a film like “Kubo and the Two Strings”), I know that steering children through their worst sadness is one of the most valuable things that a movie can do.