For example, Kubo is being voiced by an Irish child actor, Art Parkinson (best known for playing Rickon Stark on Game of Thrones). One potential political soccer ball, though: For a movie about ancient Japan, Kubo and the Two Strings sure is topped out with non-Japanese voice actors. That’s like six superhero movies from now. This doesn’t look quite that awesome, but it definitely should be worth checking out when it comes out on August 19th….August 19th! Oy. I want to marry this movie, have little Kubo and the Two Strings babies with it. Heck, the music playing underneath the whole trailer is an orchestral version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” The title character is a young boy in ancient Japan who “ accidentally summons an ancient evil and must defeat it while solving the mystery of his legendary samurai uncle.” In the trailer, though, that mostly translates to him wielding a two-string guitar-like instrument and letting his magical musical notes fell his enemies. It kind of looks like a stop-motion animated version of Tenacious D’s The Pick of Destiny layered over 47 Ronin and Mulan. Trust me, you have never seen anything like it before.Laika, the animation house behind Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls, just unveiled the second trailer for its new movie Kubo and the Two Strings. This film has one great scene after another and never takes a bad step along the way. The songs enhance the scenes without pulling one out of the story while creating a unique vibe that seems to have organically sprung to life from the material.įamed director John Ford said that the test of a great film is a film that contains three great scenes and no bad ones. As for the music, the choice of Wu Tang Clan's RZA was inspired. Take note to the way he plays on clichés when Ghost Dog goes to the one gangster's house to kill him and how he gets into the garage. He doesn't beat you over the head with the themes or the humor, letting it flow naturally. Director and writer Jim Jarmusch brings a matter of fact tone to the material, which is dry and perfect. The film totally turns the conventions and stereotypes of gangster films upside down, leading to hilarious and poignant results. It also works as a wonderful character study and as a meditation on people, who live by codes in an age of chaos. This film works equally as a thriller and comedy. He's not "normal" in a traditional way, but his sense of honor is noble. They give him purpose and meaning, without them he would be lost. Roger Ebert believes that Ghost Dog is crazy, but I'd have to disagree. The scene where Ghost Dog's boss has to explain to his bosses that he has to contact the hit man by attaching a message to a bird is one of the best scenes in film history. The gangsters like rap and always watch cartoons. Ghost Dog is a hip-hop warrior, who contacts his boss through passenger pigeons. But he believes in his code of honor to the end, whether it will lead to his death or not.Įvery character is so well-developed that they become simply unforgettable. Ghost Dog is cool, calculated and ingenious when he's doing his work. The kind-eyed assassin develops a sweet friendship with a young girl named Pearline (Camille Winbush, TV's THE BERNIE MAC SHOW). Ghost Dog's best friend, Raymond (Isaach DeBankole, CASINO ROYALE) is an ice cream man, who only speaks French and Ghost Dog only speaks English. As a teen, the gangster Louie (John Tormey, GAME 6) saved Ghost Dog from some thugs and the African American man has vowed his life to the Italian American mobster. The film follows Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker, THE CRYING GAME), a hit man, who lives by the ancient code of the samurai. The term cult film best suits this unusual genre tale of rap and the way of the samurai. Films this good and original don't come along that often. This film has been out for awhile and I've seen it three times already, but after re-watching it again I wanted to make sure that everyone knows how much I love this film.
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