{"id":12411,"date":"2016-09-07T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T16:34:37","slug":"to-see-or-not-to-see-kubo-and-the-two-strings-plucks-a-heartfelt-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/09\/07\/to-see-or-not-to-see-kubo-and-the-two-strings-plucks-a-heartfelt-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"To See or Not to See<\/em>: Kubo and the Two Strings<\/em> plucks a heartfelt chord"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Kubo and the Two Strings
\n<\/i>4\/5<\/p>\n

I grew up watching movies. Every Friday night my sister and I would settle into the couch as my parents popped a flick into the VCR. It was a time to be truly at ease; there was no school worry, no chores to be done. It was a cathartic relief of sorts. We loved movies like The Emperor\u2019s New Groove <\/i>(2000) and Tarzan <\/i>(1999), and we had favourite parts that hung with us days after we\u2019d seen them. Our staples were The Incredibles <\/i>(2004) <\/i>and Robin Hood: Men in Tights <\/i>(1993), and at one point we could act out, with full dialogue, the entirety of both films.<\/p>\n

I still love those movies\u2014although I am content to watch them a tad less often\u2014for more or less the same reasons. They still evoke a sense of wonder; they still make me laugh (a true laugh, not the kind you get at Deadpool <\/i>[2016], or Suicide Squad <\/i>[2016],<\/i> which is really more of an aghast release of air); they are still beautiful.<\/p>\n

Kubo and the Two Strings <\/i>is all of these things, and it\u2019s one of the best movies I\u2019ve seen all year. Its story is engaging throughout, which is a shockingly uncommon trait in modern films (Central Intelligence <\/i>[2016] was decidedly hit-and-miss, Finding Dory <\/i>[2016] <\/i>struggled at times, and Suicide Squad <\/i>was in fact never engaging).<\/p>\n

Kubo<\/i> has the kind of story that unfolds before you, leading you down the path that it wants you to take. There was rarely a predictable moment, but it wasn\u2019t all left turns and plot twists; it just wasn\u2019t ploddingly forthright like the aforementioned films.<\/p>\n

Only a film that comes from Laika Studios, the same people behind Coraline <\/i>(2009), <\/i>could look as surreally magical as Kubo <\/i>does. Part of The Incredibles<\/i>\u2019 <\/i>appeal is how outlandish and how truly incredible it looks. Animated films aren\u2019t confined to the same realities that live-action films are (no matter how much CG you throw at it), so it\u2019s in them that real wonder can be translated from a director\u2019s head to the viewer\u2019s.<\/p>\n

What I enjoyed about Kubo <\/i>most was that through sheer display of excellence it was able to transport me back to those Friday-night movies on the couch. A combination of un-cynical filmic delight on the part of the creators and my own love for animated adventure flicks made this an easy film to be swept away by.<\/p>\n

If you grew up with the same Kronk and Syndrome that I did, you\u2019ll love this film as much as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kubo and the Two Strings 4\/5 I grew up watching movies. Every Friday night my sister and I would settle into the couch as my parents popped a flick into the VCR. It was a time to be truly at ease; there was no school worry, no chores to be done. It was a cathartic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-september-7-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12414,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions\/12414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}