(Nick Park/2018/UK)
A
slightly disappointing outing from Nick Park who’s usually a
reliable curator of comedy stop motion flicks. Its flaws are a
confusion of message and unfortunately jokes that fall quite a bit
short of laugh out loud funny. It’s not that it’s really bad but
just not as good as previous work from Aardman Animations. Admittedly
I had seen no promo material before watching it so the crime of a
confused message may be harsh. I just expected from the title a more
homogenous story about prehistoric man rather than a satirical
football parody. If you’re not a football fan a lot of the humour
is going to be lost on you I think which narrows its audience and
maybe explains Early Man’s lack of box office returns. But my son
and daughter enjoyed it a lot more, probably because they are free of
expectation and prejudice and just want to see funny stuff happen on
screen regardless of context or genre and also they aren’t overly
serious, grumpy old film lovers like their dad.
(2.5/5)
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