Christian Hewlett

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Great visuals, Awful character development. I loved how beautiful everything looked, definitely one of Pixar's best visuals in a while. Loved how amazing the effects and character styles looked. Good job Pixar. Now for the character development. More like character undevelopment. Throughout the movie, I feel like the characters gain nothing and get progressively more and more distant from being good. Mei spends the whole movie lying to her mom with her friends and selling pictures and meetings with her alter ego, with the air of betrayal and secrecy (allusion to illegal underage activity? idk). I know this movie was meant to explore the realism behind the new generation, but I think they pushed it WAY too far. I enjoy a good movie, but this one went well beyond the comfort zone. And in the end? Her mom is COMPLETELY fine with Mei after she nearly destroys her family's Toronto complex, tears apart her family, ignores her, and disregards morality completely; and lets Mei keep the one thing that caused it all. So here is my conclusion: I wished that the characters weren't so stupid morally that they did borderline illegal things, all while convincing the audience that it was okay.