Bigfish & Begonia: Zwei Welten – Ein Schicksal (2016)

Bigfish u0026 Begonia: Zwei Welten – Ein Schicksal: Directed by Xuan Liang, Chun Zhang. With Guanlin Ji, Shangqing Su, Timmy Xu, Shulan Pan. A 16-year-old girl travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.

“I had the chance to see u0026quot;Big Fish and Begoniau0026quot; in the cinema yesterday. I was a little bit disappointed. Liang created a beautiful fantasy world and quite an original story background. Also the animations look fantastic. There are indeed many things to like about this movie. So itu0026#39;s all the more of a shame that the story is not very well told. Cuts between scenes always seems to come at the wrong moment and a lot of the characters and dialogues are redundant in regard to the main story. A lot of the movie is just a chain of depictions of cute little details in Liangu0026#39;s fantasy world. It feels a little bit like he tries so hard to be Miyazaki that he forgets all about the plot. Because of this, itu0026#39;s hard to get a feel for the movie. Which is a shame because it had a lot of potential. I hope that Liangu0026#39;s future works will try less to be Miyazaki and dare to be more Chinese. Although this movie may not be great, it might well be the start of a new age in Chinese animation cinema. I recommend this movie to people who are hugely into Chinese cinema and/or animation films. Otherwise, wait for something more worthwhile.”