I’m starting to get worried about Laika’s foreseeable future
in mainstream cinema. Not out of a fear that their work is going to start
taking a serious decline any time soon, but out of a worry that there might not
be enough people willing to see it. This film came out roughly a month ago, but
because of an embarrassingly sparse release schedule over here, I’ve only just now gotten around to it. I know that
Kubo And The Two Strings didn’t exactly set the box office on fire, but the
reputation the company has garnered as doing far better with critics than
general audiences could mean trouble. At any rate, we’re here to look at their
latest, and needless to say, it’s another fine entry into their healthy
artistic canon.
