#wendell & wild matching icons

[them-bo-dacious]

my fav sun/moon lesbians <3

i beg someone to start writing fics about them... or i will. this is a threat.

[mannycalaveracafe]

✨MATCHING ICONS✨

Pls like or reblog if u gonna use it 😌

[trulyinspiringmovies]

Wendell & Wild

“Wendell & Wild” felt like it would be a match made in heaven, but ends up being overstuffed with half-baked ideas.

Kat Elliot was only eight years old when her parents died. Five years later, she’s out of juvey and still blames herself. She’s enrolled in an all-girls Catholic school as part of a program to give juvenile delinquents a second chance. There, she receives a mark on her hand and is told by two demons named Wendell and Wild that they can bring her parents back. All she has to do is summon them into the mortal world.

Henry Selick is arguably the main reason why I love horror and the macabre. He made “James And The Giant Peach”, which was one of my favorite movies to watch in my elementary school library. He’s made the iconic “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, which I’ve raved about in my review. He’s also made, one of my favorite movies of all time, “Coraline”, which was one of the first movies I ever reviewed. Combining him with one of my current favorite horror directors, Jordan Peele, felt like a dream come true. It’s the horror claymation I loved as a child mixing with the social commentary horror that I’ve come to love as an adult. Unfortunately, “Wendell & Wild” was disappointing to me. Let’s talk about the demons, Wendell and Wild. They’re voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Any chance at hearing Key & Peele again is welcome by me, but in this movie, they’re just not funny. It really felt like they weren’t allowed to inject their own humor into this because it’s a bunch of basic kids’ movie tropes. Kat is a fine character, but she isn’t very reactive to situations. She just kind of goes with the flow and doesn’t question all that much. She’s learning that demons and zombies are real and she doesn’t really seem to mind all that much. Her muted character is really at its worse when she finally gets to talk to her parents again and it doesn’t really feel all too special. It’s cool that Raúl had some casual trans representation in the movie, but other than that fact, he’s only there to do whatever the plot needs him to do in order to progress the story forward. The rest of the characters were bland as well. There’s this group of three girls that are all there to be supportive and don’t really add to the story at all. The main girl has some plot relevance, but she has her entire character arc off-screen, so she felt pointless too. There’s this Van Helsing-type character in a wheelchair who feels like he has an interesting backstory, but it’s never explored. His inclusion boils down to needing him to resolve the final conflict. I could go on, but this is the movie’s main weakness. There are too many half-baked characters that don’t really get explored all too much. Some of them look like they just finalized the rough drafts of their character design. Couple that with the fact that things just happen for no reason other than to progress the plot and you have a movie that ends up being unengaging, even when you want it to be. It’s such a shame too since claymation is an art form I absolutely adore and I try to support it whenever I can. But you can’t just have great claymation without a good story. Otherwise, all that hard work and effort go to waste because people won’t want to check the movie out.

★★★

Watched on October 30th, 2022