Nimona
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A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.
A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.
Much like its rebellious, shapeshifting lead, Nimona doesn't look quite like anything we've seen before in animation. The film, which introduces us to a futuristic medieval kingdom, adapts ND Stevenson's award-winning graphic novel of the same name. Notably, it does not adapt his hand-drawn art style, opting instead for a 3D CG approach with its own distinctive 2D stylings. But just because ...
“Nimona” feels more like a dramatized checklist of stylistic tics and emotional beats from both Pixar and DreamWorks’ animation studios’ greatest hits. There’s some lightly likable dad-friendly puns, sight gags, and a bunch of angsty declaiming about questioning authority, being true to yourself, and other bumper-stick-ready slogans. “Nimona” also features a bunch of post-post-punk anthems and punk-adjacent music of variable quality, including at least one Metric song (“Gold Guns Girls”) and some guitar riffs by ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones.
