"There you are/out on the water/I can see your smiling face reflect back at me"

Breathtaking visuals, Christmas, very heartwarming/cute romance montages, trippy fantasy elements (though compared to Yuasa's last film it is much more coherent), fire, water, giant water-filled plush toys (which I didn't know existed), yellow bikini-clad lead, eating omelet rice outside tents in the winter season, another towering inferno in a Japanese work, a song that does grow on you after a while; this movie has it…

Much like Transformers and The Three Stooges, my dad is a huge T&J fan and I knew plenty about them more than most 2000s kids, and I have seen the previous theatrical film from the 90s, and I was not a fan; having them talk was a humongous mistake. Now in this film they don't talk which is a start...but everything else surrounding it, holy shit.

For one the movie has an opening credit sequence featuring pigeons rapping to "Can…

Soo HOOOOOOLYYYYY SHIT!, this movie was like an epic; masterful direction from Whanell who along with turning this into a domestic horror stalker story transformed this into a brilliant new take on an existing property. The domestic horror and the character of Adrien sticks with you throughout the whole film and you're just as nerve-wracked, distraught, terrified, and desperate as Elizabeth Moss (who by the way gives an excellent performance in the film).

Another thing is Whanell knows what to…