Review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) by Maxxwel_Diego — 21 May 2017

Kubo and the two Strings left my eyes with immense satisfaction with its masterful stop motion and tears with its mature theme. Kubo and the two strings went completely under my radar for films to watch. So finally I gave it watch on Netflix.

Just from the very few first minutes my eyes were greeted with masterful crafted stop motion. Kubo and the two strings sense of Art direction is something I have ever seen before.

Kubo and the two Strings kept my attention throughout the whole film. Never in a moment where I felt this film hit a low point. Every scene either has well choreographed action set pieces or meaningful scenes between our characters. Also how this film paces through its editing style keeps every next cut interesting.

I never thought I would get such a serious theme from a film like this. I feel it was handles very well as it was being told through the film. Basically I saw two themes here. The major one was that memories are the most powerful thing you could ever have and every story has a end. These two kind of entangle with each other as in the end of the film Kubo honors his parents as passing memory at the ending scene of this film, thus giving Kubo a end to his story.

However, for the plot of the film I feel it was a little bit of a mashed up adventure with your typical encounters with baddies and with the epic final boss at the end. But for the most part it checks off everything on creating a compelling characters and conflicts.

Kubo and the Two Strings is defiantly worth the watch and I encourage all of you to take a night with some popcorn and watch it.