"Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of this middling Brit-populated, European-financed, Indian-manufactured animation is the radical change of career trajectory it represents for its pinballing director, Steve Hudson. Hudson broke through with 2006's Loachian social drama True North, a migrant movie starring Peter Mullan now, having witnessed how the other half lives while directing episodes of primetime TV's Cranford, he pivots to pixels with a big-screen adaptation of Guy Bass's kid-lit books."
"his home is a castle overlooking small town Grubbers Nubbin, where a mad professor (Rob Brydon) carries out Frankenstinian experiments. If the lead character design is solid accompanying adults may wind up knitting replicas of Stitch Head's onesie the surrounding menagerie seems a bit too Pixar for comfort; Stitch's furry cyclops pal Creature (Joel Fry) is conspicuously a hybrid of Monsters, Inc's Mike and Sully."
Stitch Head is a British-populated, European-financed, Indian-manufactured animated feature that marks Steve Hudson's shift from Loachian social drama to kid-lit adaptation. The film adapts Guy Bass's books and centers on a Bowie-eyed boy with a baseball-like head voiced by Asa Butterfield, living in a castle above Grubbers Nubbin where a mad professor conducts Frankenstein-style experiments. The supporting menagerie leans heavily on Pixar tropes, notably a cyclops creature resembling Monsters, Inc's characters. The narrative turns into a melancholic, misshapen showbiz tale about a boy who wants to be loved. Visual backgrounds outshine a thin script and a muted celebrity voice cast, making the film more suitable to test on children than to fully entertain them.
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