Film · Prime Video · 2015

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A child who will not stop searching for her mother. The comedy is in the way.

Tip's mother is taken in an alien relocation and Tip does not adjust. She goes. Oh is a coward from a culture of cheerful conformity, and the film thinks courage is catching. The Boov are comic invaders. The girl is not comic. That imbalance is the film's integrity.

It is bright and a bit frantic. Under it: do not relocate a family and call it help. Do not leave a child to be reasonable about a missing mother.

The eight

Industry
4/10
A journey, a scavenged car.
Household
8/10
The whole plot is a daughter retrieving her mother.
Piety
2/10
None.
Courage
7/10
She does not accept the relocation.
Republic
5/10
An empire that moves populations and smiles.
Temperance
5/10
Cowardice is Oh's starting vice.
Truth
7/10
The Boov call an invasion a welcome.
Stewardship
8/10
A mother and child belong in the same house.

Live historicallyIf a child is looking for you, be findable.

Film · Prime Video · 2005

Corpse Bride

A vow is a real thing. The film knows it, then spends too long in the underworld's party.

Victor's trouble starts because he treats the words of a marriage as a rehearsal he can mutter in a wood. The dead hear him. That is the right metaphysics for a comedy: a vow is not a draft. Emily is pitiable and she is also wrong to hold a living man to a mistake. The film lets her release him. That release is the decent ending.

The land of the dead is more fun than the land of the living, and the living wedding is a transaction between anxious parents. Count that. A marriage in this story is saved by mercy, not by the party downstairs. Watch it with older children. Do not let the skeletons outvote the vow.

The eight

Industry
5/10
A pianist, a wedding as a contract. Work is mostly nerves.
Household
6/10
Marriage is the subject. The parents treat it as a merger.
Piety
5/10
The dead have a claim because words were spoken. Then the claim is surrendered.
Courage
6/10
He tells the truth and goes back upstairs.
Republic
4/10
The town is a set of grasping families.
Temperance
6/10
The underworld's joke is appetite. He does not stay for it.
Truth
8/10
A mistaken vow is confessed, not hacked into a happy theft.
Stewardship
6/10
He returns to a living marriage. She lets the living go.

Live historicallySay your promises out loud before you make them, and only to the living person you mean.