The Ape Star (2021)

The Ape Star (2021). The Ape Star: Directed by Linda Hambäck. With Rebecca Gerstmann, Pernilla August, Melinda Kinnaman, Stellan Skarsgård. Jonna has lived at the orphanage all her life. One day a Gorilla comes and adopts her. It takes some time for Jonna to get used to her new mother, but just as everything starts becoming good, the local authorities threaten their existence.

“This is the first time I ever write a review for a movie on IMDB, but I feel compelled.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis movie has had high praise from Swedish media outlets and has two our greatest Hollywood-quality actors, Stellan Skarsgård and Pernilla August (and multiple other actors I hold in high regard) as characters, and the movie is produced and directed by a well established Swedish childrensu0026#39; movie director.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe praise has been for the story, the u0026quot;charming animationu0026quot; and so on. I saw it in the cinema with my two children, aged 6 and 9.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e–u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is the worst movie I have ever seen. The voice acting is downright horrible with loads of grunts and unnatural sounds, and despite (or because of?) having done the acting work live, together in a recording studio, the acting seems forced, out of sync and with a slow, strange pacing. At multiple places, several minutes goes by with just u0026quot;soundsu0026quot; from people.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStellan Skarsgårds acting is slightly above the rest, but with the script and the directing, he is just barely above 1 star anyway.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe u0026quot;charmingu0026quot; animation is choppy, unnatural, unrealistic, childish and simplistic. And none of this in a u0026quot;charmingu0026quot; manner but in the worst way you can interpret it. It just looks bad.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut the worst part of the movie is the story. It is repetitive, awkward, makes no sense (in a bad way), and is extremely slowly paced. I almost fell asleep several times.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne could easily have condensed this movie to 15-30 minutes, and it would have improved it a lot.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI think the high critic score is due to political reasons, we are supposed to like it due to the actors and the budget, but it really is a train wreck of a movie.”