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- Despite the story itself needing a shave, The Sea Beast is a sweet, delightful distraction filled with maritime monster melees, a solid emotional core, and bewitching visuals. It's got heart, decent world-building, and a vital message, though the set up's overlong and the ending's choppy.
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Jul 8, 2022 · The robust family adventure “The Sea Beast,” appearing today on Netflix, is one of the biggest movie surprises of the year so far. Fun, smart, and sneakily deep, it has elements that will be familiar to families around the world.
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Jun 24, 2022 · An original animated tale that's often as daring as its characters, The Sea Beast sends audiences on a voyage well worth taking. Read Critics Reviews. The Sea Beast 's story is...
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Jul 7, 2022 · “Live a great life and die a great death,” goes the mantra of the monster hunters in Netflix’s new animated movie “The Sea Beast.”
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jul 8, 2022 6:05 pm
Posted: Jul 8, 2022 2:00 pm
The Sea Beast premieres Friday, July. 8 on Netflix.
The Sea Beast, though a touch bloated, is an endearing, rollicking animated adventure that makes for fine summertime family fare. Hailing from Netflix Animation, the film tackles well-traveled themes but the gentle genre mix here, of pirates vs. ocean monsters, as well as some nicely executed action sequences, helps craft a fun fable about acceptance and forgiveness.
Directed by Chris Williams (Big Hero 6, stories for Moana/Emperor's New Groove), The Sea Beast delivers a soft rogue's tale about a world filled by giant water creatures and heroic "hunters" tasked with bringing them down. A few generations have gone by since the "Dark Times" (when these monsters were said to outright attack coastal towns), and hunters are now so prevalent, with their precarious occupation, that orphanages now exist for kids left parentless because their folks went to war with a colossal sea serpent.
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The Sea Beast struggles with pacing, antagonists (Dan Stevens voices an arrogant royal nemesis, but all-to briefly), and story payoffs/outs, but it's also charming, and the new life Jacob is tossed into, after being so set on one path for so long, makes for an absorbing, awesome character 180. And as both Maisie and Jacob learn to love Red, and empathize with sea monsters in general, The Sea Beast still allows the monsters to keep their fangs. These aren't peaceful, docile creatures, necessarily. They, like humans, contain layers and will lash out even if the moment doesn't call for it. This adds a pleasant bit of complexity to what could have been a much simpler story.
Jared Harris, as Captain Crow, seems like he'll be the type of father figure Jacob might have to avenge, but he blossoms into something much darker and more interesting. There are some unresolved elements with regards to Crow and his inner turmoil (and dealings with a witch) as the credits roll, but the story still makes better use of him than most other movies with a similar character. To be fair, Crow isn't the only lingering thread at the end of this tale, which is a shame since it seems like there was ample time to address everything.
Karl Urban, currently starring on The Boys (and known for other wonderful sci-fi grumpiness in Dread, Star Trek, and Almost Human), gets to engage in some kindness here, as Jacob blossoms from narrow-minded to protective and compassionate. Jacob, as someone being task with breaking a cycle of violence, has a steep leaning curve but his time with Maisie and Red (and Blue) is handled with enough care to make his transition buyable.
Despite the story itself needing a shave, The Sea Beast is a sweet, delightful distraction filled with maritime monster melees, a solid emotional core, and bewitching visuals. It's got heart, decent world-building, and a vital message, though the set up's overlong and the ending's choppy.
Jun 16, 2022 · ‘The Sea Beast’ Review: In Which an Orphan Girl Tames the Ocean’s Most Fearsome Monsters Reviewed at Annecy Animation Festival, June 15, 2022. MPA Rating: PG. Running time: 115 MIN.
Jul 7, 2022 · ‘The Sea Beast’: Film Review. In the latest animated feature from Chris Williams (‘Moana,’ ‘Big Hero 6’), a young orphan joins forces with a legendary hunter of ocean monsters.
Jul 9, 2022 · The Sea Beast is excellent cinema and viewers should see it on the biggest screen possible! Either way, audiences should prepare to have the wonders of animation transport them to an epic swashbuckling adventure from the comfort of their own homes.
