THE MISSING LINK CAST MOVIE
After watching the trailer it was very apparent that this was not a horror movie but instead a low-budget, prehistoric version of Queer Eye. One weekend after watching Stickman – a frightening thriller about a monster who invades your dreams and attempts to murder you if you speak its name – the movie The Missing Link came up in our recommendations. Of course, there's no class element, since Lionel and Adelina are both rich, too, but the message is still clear: Pride comes before the fall (quite literally), and empathy and generosity are more important than self-absorption and glory.“The Missing Link” isn’t a good movie, but maybe you should watch it anyway.ĭuring the month of October, our group of friends had been getting into the Halloween spirit by watching a few horror movies each week. The villain, Lord Piggot-Dunceb, is a fabulous reminder of what happens when privileged elites scoff at change or at those who challenge authority. Adelina's fast-paced banter with Lionel makes it seem like a romance between them is inevitable, but the movie isn't a love story - it's about friendship and progress. Adelina's competence and quick wit (her marksmanship is as notable as her beauty) are matched by her empathy for Susan's plight. Lionel and Susan learn from each other and become a comical odd-couple duo, with Adelina a much-needed force turning them into a functional trio. LAIKA's films are so intricately made that you can rewatch them and catch something new to focus on each time, particularly backgrounds and secondary characters.Īs for the story, it's a fairly straightforward unlikely-friendship adventure. As the end-credits sequence illustrates, LAIKA's combination of elaborate stop-action animation enhanced with computer animation is simply stunning - no detail is spared, from the texture on the era-appropriate clothes and the fur on Susan and the Yetis to the grand landscapes of snow-capped mountains and the clutter of Victorian-era London's busy streets. There's slightly more style than substance here, but the style is amazing.
Show moreĬharming and beautifully animated, LAIKA's buddy Bigfoot adventure is funny and sweet, if not quite as poignant as Kubo or as memorable as Coraline. Lionel agrees, but first they must get a map to Shangri-La from a fellow adventurer's widow, the fearless and fiery Adelina Fortnight ( Zoe Saldana), who accompanies Lionel and Susan on a cross-continental trip to the snowy Himalayas. Lonely as the only one of his kind, Susan convinces Lionel to help him find his "cousins," the Yetis. In America, Lionel finds the Sasquatch ( Zach Galifianakis), who can speak English and prefers to be called Susan. But the haughty lord isn't interested in Frost's Darwinist's theories and hires a hit man ( Timothy Olyphant) to kill Lionel before he can return to England. So Lionel makes a wager with the club's president, Lord Piggot-Dunceb ( Stephen Fry): If Lionel can prove that Bigfoot is real, he must be allowed into the club. He believes that finding the Sasquatch in the American West will provide the "missing link" between humans and early man.
MISSING LINK follows Sir Lionel Frost (voiced by Hugh Jackman), who's determined to be admitted into London's prestigious members-only club for adventurers. There are positive messages about friendship, identity, and partnership and themes of empathy and teamwork, but given the storyline and the humor, Missing Link is better suited for older elementary schoolers. Language is limited to "bugger," "sucks," and historical slang like "poppycock." There's a bit of flirting but no actual romance, although there are references to Sir Lionel's rakish past. One climactic sequence is particularly tense, as is a terrifying moment when a villain threatens a grandmother and her infant grandchild at gunpoint - but ( spoiler alert!) it all ends well for the main characters. Expect some violent scenes in which guns are used, as well as a few character deaths (though they're all in the "bad guy" camp). Starring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, and Zoe Saldana, the movie - which feels like a cross between a road trip comedy and a buddy adventure - follows a 19th-century English adventurer (Jackman) who teams up with a lonely Bigfoot (Galifianakis) to find his distant relatives, the Yetis of the Himalayas. Parents need to know that Missing Link is a stop-action/computer-generated animated adventure from LAIKA, the studio behind Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls, and ParaNorman.
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