Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated.... (Full plot summary below)
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Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated.
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| RogerEbert.comCarlos AguilarEven if a wonder feels minor, it reminds us that everything that Cartoon Saloon invests their talents in results in open-hearted, warm, and affecting art that’s never saccharine but thematically matured in essential drops of wisdom. |
| Paste MagazineTara BennettIt will especially appeal to the sensitive kids (and adults) in your life, and it most definitely meets the high standards Cartoon Saloon continues to make in the medium. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe deep fondness for the source material comes through, and the painterly hand-drawn aesthetic is enchanting. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThanks to the distinct look of films from Cartoon Saloon, this Nora Twomey (she also directed “The Breadwinner”) project plays and feels like a fairytale that has a bit more going on than sight-gags and punchlines. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichIf this weren’t a Cartoon Saloon movie, it would probably fall apart long before Meg LeFauve’s screenplay arrives at its touching finale, which trusts kids to confront some of the more difficult truths that childhood forces you to intuit. But good news: My Father’s Dragon is a Cartoon Saloon movie, and the open-hearted sincerity of the studio’s work breathes singular life into even the least engaging scenes of its most anonymous feature. |
| The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeIn some ways it is Cartoon Saloon’s most “normal” film, but, stuffed with visual elan and powered by good nature, it confirms the studio’s desire to stretch in hitherto unexplored directions. |
| EmpireJohn NugentAnother smash from Cartoon Saloon, at once heartily funny and heartfelt. With this and The Breadwinner, director Nora Twomey is now two-for-two. |
| Screen RantAlexander HarrisonBeautiful, moving, and sporting a compelling metaphor for parenthood, Twomey's film is heartfelt in the way that Pixar and Ghibli films are, making it a worthy pick for a family movie night. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe result is something visually dazzling and emotionally resonant, though likely to appeal primarily to youngsters and genre buffs. |
| PolygonOli WelshDirector Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner, The Secret of Kells) and screenwriter Meg LeFauve (Pixar’s Inside Out) have rebuilt the Gannetts’ fragmented, surreal little parable into something that’s more like a conventionally structured kids’ movie, but they’ve also made it more exciting and resonant. It’s a lovely film. |
