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eglantiere screened this for me and was very amused by my reactions. I somehow not only avoided being spoiled for it, but had osmosed basically everything about it wrong. My beliefs going in: It's a Japanese anime about a lone disgraced warrior who picks up a young girl with a mission, and they have a father-daughter relationship. I was picturing something like Lone Wolf and Cub or True Grit, set in some Japanese historical fantasy period.
What it actually is: An American animated movie based on an American webcomic. The setting is a fantasy-SF mashup with knights AND flying cars AND pizza. It does involve a lone disgraced warrior, but he's voiced by Riz Ahmed (with an excellent cartoon rendering of his puppy-dog eyes), and he's a GAY KNIGHT with a canon GAY relationship with another canon GAY KNIGHT. No, I don't know how I'd failed to osmose the gay earlier.
Nimona is a girl and they do have a sort of parental relationship but also a reluctant sidekick-knight relationship, and it's hilarious. Nimona is a great character who can shapeshift into basically anything, but frequently pink. She's pure id: "FIGHT! EAT PIZZA! CHAAAAARGE!"
The other thing I completely failed to osmose is that the entire thing is an allegory about trans/queer issues and acceptance. It's completely unsubtle and very sweet. Nimona can be a girl, a boy, or a giant pink whale; what is Nimona? "I'm Nimona!"
The animation is bright and bold, with nicely done flashbacks in different styles. The whole thing is funny and sweet and charming. I gather that it's not completely faithful to the original webcomic, but I don't know the original webcomic so I can't comment on that. I enjoyed it.
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The movie also made me laugh out loud, so well done to it for covering all the feels!
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I was reminded of how in last year's _Sandman_ show many details are kinder than in the comic, and how I felt about that. Somewhat similar effect here, at least for me.
Also RIZ AHMED'S HUGE EYES TO DROWN IN EEE
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P.S. hedgehog in a previous post was very cute, and reminded me I enjoyed a French (I think) movie whose title was, translated from French, The Hedgehog.
P.P.S. glad with this and The Peripheral to see/hear Chloe Grace Moretz in movies and TV series that don't seem like they're likely crappy.
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