Ferdinand

Ferdinand (2017)

Ferdinand is an animated comedy adventure movie of 2017 produced by Blue Sky Studios, Davis Entertainment, and 20th Century Fox Animation. The film is based on the book Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson's The Story of Ferdinand, written by Robert L. Baird, Tim Federle and Brad Copeland and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The film features John Cena's voice as a titular role, along with Kate McKinnon, Anthony Anderson, Bobby Cannavale, Peyton Manning, Gina Rodriguez, Daveed Diggs, Gabriel Iglesias, Miguel Ángel Silvestre and David Tennant. The story written by Ron Burch, David Kidd and Don Rhymer, follows a pacific pacifist bull named Ferdinand who refuses to participate in bullfights but is forced to return to the arena where his belief is challenged by facing the world's largest matador.

Title: Ferdinand

Country: USA

Language: English

Release: 11 November 2017 (USA) 

Runtime: 108 min

Director: Carlos Saldanha

Writers: Munro Leaf (based on the book by), Robert Lawson (based on the book by)

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Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen. Based on the classic 1936 children's book by Munro Leaf.

It seems that some people think the jokes in this movie fall flat and there is too much unnecessary clutter, but I honestly really really loved this movie. It was a reluctant choice after not finding anything else playing that we wanted to see, but man am I glad we saw it!

Ferdinand is the cutest bull I've ever seen, and I have to say I'm not familiar with this studio's other films but I thought the animation style was wonderful. I especially liked the wide range of expressions on Ferdinand's face throughout the movie, with a few close-ups that really captured the perfection of those expressions well.

The story itself was inspirational and heartwarming, full of examples and discussions on being yourself and breaking the mold and not letting anyone else define who you are. There were some heavy-handed moments that I'm not sure a younger viewer would understand, or possibly that may be too bleak for a very young viewer. Some of the humor was a little more adult-oriented, but most of it was clean, although sometimes rather stupid. The ending is pretty much exactly what you'd expect of a feel-good kid's movie, and I liked it very.

The film premiered on December 8, 2017 at the Dubai International Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on December 15, 2017, in 3D and 2D by 20th Century Fox, and received a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards.

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