A 10-year-old girl's grief manifests as violent drawings come to life in writer-director Seth Worley's Spielbergian debut feature, also starring D'Arcy Carden.
If you were to take the wide-eyed wonder of a Steven Spielberg, the impish mischief of a Joe Dante, plus the vibrant visuals of prime Pixar and somehow blitz them together in a Magic Bullet blender, the resulting concoction might well resembleAlthough the tween tale may be admittedly lacking in singular originality, it more than compensates for all its borrowed bits with a Skittles-hued sugar rush of a live-action romp, with an unusual take on family therapy in which a 10-year-old girl’s grief...
Meanwhile, more introverted Jack, who has stumbled upon a mysterious pond in the woods with the proven ability to repair damaged objects, wonders what effects those healing powers might have on his mother’s scattered ashes. As Amber, Jack and talky Bowman , the original object of Amber’s ire, join forces to fend off their adversaries, oblivious Dad, whose realtor sister has the listing on their home, is preoccupied just trying to get the place in order.All that derivation might have been a glaring liability in lesser hands, but Worley has adroitly assembled the mega-mash-up into an engaging whole, with the help of an amiable cast and a crack technical team.
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