Review 798: Wildwood
Wildwood is a moving, exciting a truckload of outstanding world-building, sumptuous visuals and tender weighty themes that tugs at the heartstrings and even has us on the edge of our seat at times. A project more than five years in the making Based on the novel Wildwood by Colin Meloy & Carson Ellis; Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) is an adolescent who lives in Portland with her hippie parents (Maya Erskine and Jake Johnson) and her baby brother Mac (director Travis Knight's youngest son Arthur). Their parents have raised them on tales of the Dark Woods and the impassible wilderness that is out there and that they must never venture outdoors. But one day when the parents are out at a craft fair, Prue takes baby Mac outside to play where she bumps into Visually, Wildwood is a feast for the eyes, the model sets and puppets are all brought to life with and are immaculately detailed The Impassible Wilderness itself is very Narnian in its presentation: ...
