"Literally riding the rainbow here is title character Arco (voiced by Juliano Krue), a 10-year-old boy from far in the future, who longs to go travelling back in time like his big sister and parents. The older family members have to don a special rainbow-coloured cloak, powered by a sparkly diamond thingy in order to visit, say, the dinosaurs."
"After crash-landing in a forest, Arco gets scooped up by Iris (Romy Fay), a 10-year-old girl who has her own gripes about her family, especially the fact that her parents (Mark Ruffalo and Natalie Portman) are never home and Iris and her infant brother Peter are effectively being raised by nanny-robot Mikki."
"It's like the animation equivalent of that classroom art-lesson trick where you hold a bunch of crayons at once to draw the seven rainbow colours of refracted light; the intensity gets to be a bit much after a while."
This animated feature follows Arco, a 10-year-old boy from a distant future where Earth is flooded and humans live on stacked platforms. He illegally steals his sister's rainbow-powered cloak to time travel to 2075, where he meets Iris, a girl with absent parents and a robot nanny. The film combines expressive character design with a melancholic musical score and strong emotional moments. However, the script borrows heavily from existing narratives. The animation uses intensely saturated colors and rainbow imagery throughout. The story explores themes of family disconnection and environmental change, with Earth experiencing frequent extreme storms and wildfires. While the visual palette captivates younger viewers, the derivative plot elements may feel familiar to older audiences.
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