The Sea Beast Review: An Exhilarating & Poignant Nautical Adventure
These days there seems to be a proliferation of animated features that have lost the ability to tell meaningful stories while still being spectacles. Often, animated features are relegated to entertainment for children, talking down to them rather than teaching them to understand and experience essential themes and messages. The Sea Beast is an animated feature that captures the medium's magic. It's perfectly capable of telling a meaningful story that will entertain and educate younger audiences without losing older audiences to cheap jokes. It is a remarkable feat that will have viewers feeling nostalgic and hopeful.
The Sea Beast follows Jacob Holland (Karl Urban), a legendary sea monster hunter whose life is flipped upside down when an inquisitive and adventure-seeking young girl, Maisie (Zaris-Angel Hator), stows away on his ship. Together they embark on an exhilarating epic journey into uncharted waters, uncovering startling revelations about the practice of monster hunting.
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From the director Big Hero 6, one of Disney’s best animated features, Chris Williams headed to Netflix to craft a delightfully exciting and poignant ocean adventure. The narrative isn’t overly complicated as it is meant to appeal to all ages (because animation isn’t just for kids). It harkens back to a time when important messages and themes were carefully threaded into a spectacle — and oh boy is The Sea Beast quite the impressive spectacle. There is a thoughtful and emotional impact that is never sacrificed for flimsy jokes and childish antics. With Maisie as the precious protagonist, she acts as the stand-in for younger audiences who are eager to join a heroic adventure, but have to learn some
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