The Adventures of Woollyfoot and Friends & The Eliminadora
Reviews by Paul Preston
Welcome to Today I Watched…, a series of posts documenting my new challenge – watch a movie a day for the rest of my life. Keep coming back to TheMovieGuys.net to find out what I watch each day…and get my take on it.
When I see a movie that’s a new release in theaters or on demand, I’ll give it a proper review in the “Reviews” or “Home Viewing”, otherwise, I’ll write about it here.
June 1, 2017 – Alien: Covenant – read the review of Ridley Scott’s latest chapter in the Alien universe in the REVIEWS category of TheMovieGuys.net.
June 2, 2017 – Okja – catch my thoughts on the maniacal invention from Bong Joon Ho that is…Okja in the REVIEWS category of TheMovieGuys.net
June 3, 2017 – The Adventures of Woollyfoot and Friends
This is a charming, wordless animated short that was another highlight of the Dances With Kidz! program. This is technically subtitled Episode 1: Woollyfoot tries to make friends with Puffball. The animation is here stop-action and made up of characters put together with yarn, cardboard, cross-stitching, ribbon, macramé (perhaps) and other fabric. The energy is high here as Woolyfoot is a Bigfoot-type creature, but adorable who traipses through the forest, scaring the crap out of Puffball, an all-adorable little woodland blob of fuzz. This is my kind of animated short, where they deal with some differences and conflict, but then screw-it-all to have a dance and air guitar montage. I hope there are more episodes. Check it out below, it’s just goofy and random enough to be awesome:
The Adventures of Woollyfoot & Friends – Episode 1: Woollyfoot tries to make friends with Puffball from Edward on Vimeo.
June 4, 2017 – Wonder Woman – the mixed bag DC comic movie was covered in the REVIEWS category of TheMovieGuys.net
June 5, 2017 – The Eliminadora
The Eliminadora is an ambitious children’s short with many good qualities, but the whole is a little unfocused. There might be three good movies in here, but as one, it gets a little bogged down in multiple storylines that have competing tones. Sofia dreams of being a Lucha Libre wrestler like her father, but her mother won’t have it. The film jumps between her struggles in real life and fantasy wrestling sequences where she’s a bold champion brawler. The film is eager to show you that you can be a hero in anything you do by having Sofia befriend a homeless man, but this is where a third movie pops up in the one we’re dealing with and has new statements to make about the poor, cops, racism and more. It gets a little garbled there, ‘cause I just wanted to see Sofia reconcile her tussle between her dreams and her parents, but there is a satisfying, if rushed, conclusion. The Eliminadora has a winner in its game lead, Nadia Renteria, and no doubt kids will be entertained and perhaps inspired by her.
