Chris Stuckmann reviews Penguin Highway, starring Kana Kita, Yû Aoi. Penguin Highway largely delivers on its promise of cuteness and mystery, and adds wonder and heart for good measure. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review.
With Kana Kita, Yû Aoi, Tony Azzolino, Landen Beattie. A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic. It's a long way from 'Happy Feet,' but as animated penguin movies go, this eccentric Japanese mystery ranks among the country's more delightful exports.
If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. REVIEW: Penguin Highway Is FLCL By Way of Studio Ghibli. At the very least, watch the anime film Penguin Highway to experience It's far from the most thrilling anime movie, and in the early going it could, frankly, use some stronger narrative drive, but the story thoughtfully done and relatable. Penguin Highway observes penguins unexpectedly appearing in a sleepy suburb with some enthusiastically generated physical humour caused by This movie is a child's fable about coming of age and draws parallels between enjoyment of science and learning and the world and learning about. "Delightful Animated Adventure with a Trippy Science Fiction Twist". Bright fourth grader Aoyama lives a peaceful, normal life as summer vacation looms. Review: I was excited for Penguin Highway from the moment I first saw the trailer.
Trailer Penguin Highway
The bright colors were immediately charming, and the penguins The promos didn't make clear that the penguins only appear in a fraction of the film. The movie leans strongly on its fantastical premise in the beginning. Penguin Highway Movie Review: Coming-of-age sci-fi anime is joy incarnate.
As it turns out, there are manifold mysteries to unravel in Penguin Highway, which are connected in a sort of Stranger-Things-meets-Ponyo-with-a-splash-of-Close-Encounters way and ultimately loop back to the Lady. For this review I will try to limit Overall Enjoyment and verdict: Penguin Highway is an amazing movie. Exactly my kind of weird but beautiful movie. There isn't really a grand thing to.