Home Review

2015 in film

Mar 24

Written By Rendy Jones

Preview

PG: Action, Peril and Rude Humor

20th Century Fox, Dreamworks Animation

1 hr and 94 Minutes

Voice Cast: Jim Parsons. Rihanna, Steve Martin, with Jennifer Lopez, and Matt L. Jones

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during my adolescence. Outdated language might be seen in these old posts. Since then, my thoughts and values have grown. This review is being presented as they were originally written, grammatical errors, shitty sentence structure, and typos galore. Because to do otherwise would be that same as claiming these flaws never existed.

BACKSTORY: March 7th 2015 I attended a screening of Home, the newest Dreamworks film. I liked it personally, but then I thought about it.

STORYLINE: When Oh, a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand that being different and making mistakes is all part of being human. And while he changes her planet and she changes his world, they discover the true meaning of the word HOME.

REVIEW: If you haven't learned by now Dreamworks Animation is sort of in a bad standpoint with their box office returns. Now they're relying on Home to be their saving grace and I hope this film makes big bucks, so they can produce better movies. Don't get me wrong I like this film, but it isn't as strong as a lot of previous films. This may be far more better than Penguins of Madagascar, but it doesn't reach the heights as to say How to Train Your Dragon or Kung Fu Panda. The film treads very familiar ground with the "unlikely person meets another unlikely creature and have to go from point A to point B. Its, generic family film plot #5 but more dull. There are too many moments where scenes just drags on especially when it just has to have Rihanna music in the background. Its a personal pet peeve of mine of having a movie be marketing of a singer due to her music being only used instead of an actual score WHILE SHE'S ACTING OR VOICE ACTING! The crammed in Rihanna jams are really uncomfortable to sit through. Granted the music is good, but saving it for the credits would be nice. Having that said, the movie does display beautiful designs throughout. This film showcases a lot of great backgrounds and good people character design. The fact that one of the main characters is actually Bajan, is really groundbreaking for an animated movie. The psychology of how socially inept the Boov are are plays a great aspect in the story. It isn't until the last 10 minutes the emotion really kicks in, but its too little to late by that point especially when the film ends on another generic and stupid dance sequence.

3D: Its a Dreamworks movie, of course the 3D is fantastic. This time you got a lot of bubbles cause the Boov has a lot of bubble centric technology.

LAST STATEMENT: Though Home is a visual splendor with a lot of emotion its bland storyline, execution, and marketing of Rihanna songs makes this film nothing but the lowest common denominator film to be released by Dreamworks.