I read the Mandarin version. Because of translation, some nouns may have deviations. I wanted to disassemble the story as seriously as the first one, but after reading it, I found it a bit embarrassing. "Crazy Primitives 2" is an animated film that is great in almost every aspect, only the story is a little bit shallow.
(It’s not that it’s not good to be shallow, but it’s just that there is no need to write a story analysis.) In terms of the plot, there is everything that should be and the rhythm is very standard. In the end, there are no shortcomings in the story. The adolescent emotions of the two generations are a bit like the mammoth father and daughter in "Ice Age"; the banana suspense progresses from the crisis of the boxing monkey leading to the ultimate boss baboon, somewhat similar to "How to Train Your Dragon 1." The story is full of major and minor contradictions, the "class and civilization" contradiction between the two families; the contradiction between the lovers, the comparison of the pigeons of the two fathers and the two mothers; plus the crisis and suspense in the second half of the story, the amount of information in the story is very high. big. It's interesting enough, but not surprising. Of course, taking Pixar as the standard of surprise may be a bit high. "Crazy Primitives 2" is still a very good-looking movie; first give me a thumbs up for the brain and art design. Every species, every paragraph is full of brain holes, and the audience is receiving information all the time. Assuming that a traditional story has 2 burdens per minute, this film is at least 10 burdens per minute. It is elaborate, fast-paced, and informative. Naturally, each paragraph is beautiful. It can be regarded as an industry standard upgrade for animation content creation.
In the past, we talked about script creation and said that in the Hollywood script production line, every scene is accurate to the minute; now it is upgraded to the 2.0 era, and the script is accurate to every beat in each scene, from minutes to seconds. In other words, every second of "Crazy Primitives 2" is piled up by the strength of the film industry. To expand it a little bit, seeing Nezha, White Snake, has caught up with the 1.0 era; as a result, people have entered the 2.0 era, and the gap has widened again. Of course, it is not brainless. For example, in the macro story structure, Nezha is more "tidy" than this film. The 2020 film also seems to keep pace with the times in terms of story temperament. "Political correctness" finally entered the cartoon. The conflict between the two families alludes to the class differences in American society; while the grandmother's increased role, with a group of female characters to rescue male stupid, compared to the first story about the father's love, the whole film is very "feminist". Of course, the effect is still very entertaining, and it seems a bit "Marvelized". Speaking of the baggage of grandma's hair, father's chest hair, and daughter's toes, these baggages are regarded as "magic strokes." Normal sequels usually don't make character models as baggage. Compared with the two crazy primitives, the first one has just the right number of protagonists, the contradiction is simple, and the story creation space is traditional and sufficient; the second sequel has a significant increase in the number of characters, which should be regarded as a double-edged sword, with more interesting designs and details, and also Make the audience's attention even less concentrated. For my personal taste, "Crazy Primitives 2" is a bit fast. I prefer stories like "Rango" or "The Great Fox Papa". Is the movie really good? Some films are refreshing for a while, and when the excitement is over, they will be forgotten. What can really be left is the story with the theme and outstanding character creation. For example, many of Pixar's good movies, of course Kung Fu Panda and Invincible Destruction King are also good. I guess that after a few years from Crazy Primitive Man, all you can remember are those cute animals, that tarantula is a cute duck.
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