
Early Man movie review: primordial goop
A huge disappointment, crude and simple compared to Aardman’s earlier, more sophisticated and multilayered work. No satire or subversion, just a bog-standard triumph-of-the-underdog story.

A huge disappointment, crude and simple compared to Aardman’s earlier, more sophisticated and multilayered work. No satire or subversion, just a bog-standard triumph-of-the-underdog story.

So my Let’s Wait and See Plan after last week’s episode did not pan out. It’s not that there isn’t some good stuff here. But where it ends up is too easy.

Ah, so that’s my problem with the show lately: it’s a bit too Monty Python.
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
I’m really not sure if the men in the audience who are used to their dreams of glory being catered to in fantasy can appreciate how special and thrilling it is for a woman to see this all these kickass women…
May well be the most solidly confident storytelling I’ve seen on television, perhaps ever…