Reviews

Wonderful charming movie! Both the stop motion and 2d animation are absolutely amazing, and the beautiful craftsmanship in this movie absolute testament to how stop motion animation stands alongside and sometimes above computer animation. The voice acting is all very very well done, I especially loved the Pope (though in parts the music can drown it out somewhat) and I really thought Leonardo's internal conflict throughout the whole movie. Highly recommend this movie to anyone even remotely interested in Italian Renaissance history, stop motion animation, art and the act of creation, or wants to see a beautifully told story about humanity and art.

Boring, uninteresting schlop that offers incredibly little for those who are already fans of the games and absolutely nothing for those who aren't. I can genuinely not see any reason someone might enjoy this amateurish nothing burger of a movie other than because of a knee jerk positive reaction to seeing matpat or Freddy fazbear or the other animatronics on screen. Just a movie pumped out to grab some extra dollars for the owners and film companies by capitalizing on a name that will be forgotten as soon as it leaves theatres. I'd skip this one, it is not worth your time no matter what you think of the games or the property.

Del Toro has created a masterpiece. This movie is dark, beautiful and thematically deep in ways that I have not seen from a movie in recent memory. It contains themes of Grief, trauma, death, an exploration of the human soul, and a surprisingly robust deconstruction of the fascist cult of hero worship if you know where to look for it. This is all packaged in beautiful stop motion animation crafted over the four years that this movie was in development. The movie also goes to several dark places, including death, alcoholism, war, fascism (as previously mentioned) and grief, all of which are treated with gravity and seriousness deserved. It is one of the rare movies that come along only every so many years that make me genuinely believe the world would be a better place were everyone in the world to watch them.