Jack Healy22

To this day it blows my mind that this movie won the 2024 animated picture of the year over the wild robot. I watched both of these movies on a plane and had two starkly different experiences. The wild robot was one of the most beautiful and compelling stories of compassion that left me in tears at the end. With well written characters and emotion packed at every corner the Wild Robot had just the right amount of sweetness and smidge of bitterness in an emotionally comforting and compelling movie. On the other hand I did not find this with Flow. I found the ending to be abrupt and leaving without many answers. While I was able to understand much of the movie through the animals emotions and actions the lack of dialogue has both a mysterious and calming, but also confusing effect. I feel that overall it lacks depth as a film and while it might be visually pleasing it is certainly far less well rounded than The Wild Robot. All things accounted for, The Wild Robot is certainly a better all around film than Flow in 2024.

This movie was absolutely pitiful. To begin, the D-Rex got maybe 10 minutes of screen time and besides being one of the ugliest things i've ever seen (i get it's a mutant) it recorded one single kill and fought no other dinos. The level of emotion between characters seems extremely shallow and there are lengths of the movie where you're begging to see a dinosaur. The scene introducing the mosasaur was drawn out by at least 7-8 minutes too long. Not enough kills, not enough dinos, not any nostalgia or feel for the franchise whatsoever. It did not feel like a Jurassic Park/World Movie at all and felt like a mediocre stand alone dinosaur movie. Worth a watch for one funny character (he only cared about weed and licorice bites) but other than that this absolutely blows.