In 2021, the continued downturn in the overseas film market also affected the animation market, and several traditional hollywood label works were limited, but there was still a third of the time left in 2021, and the big move was still left behind. To say that the most anticipated animated movie this year is the upcoming "Honey Bear's Musical Journey". The reason is simple, with a Rotten Tomatoes 86% freshness certification, but also by the "Hollywood Reporter", "Vision" and other professional media as "edutainment", "the most suitable movie to watch with the family", and famous labels cooperate with IP directors, it is difficult not to rub out a fierce spark!
This Hollywood musical animation film "Honey Bear's Musical Journey" is produced by Sony Pictures Animation (sony Pictures Animation), directed by Kirk de Miko, who has directed "Crazy Primitives".
Since the birth of 3D animation films, in the global market, Hollywood animation films occupy a very high share, and the internal three worlds, this pattern continues to this day, but it has long been a thing. Think of that year, Pixar, DreamWorks, Blue Sky Studio three-legged, "Toy Story", "Monster Shrek", "Ice Age" for a time to compete for a time. Unfortunately, among the three today' families, Blue Sky Studio has been dissolved by Disney after being acquired, and DreamWorks has long become a harem child under universal umbrella, so it has also led to a large number of talents leaving, "Crazy Primitive" Kirk de Miko left DreamWorks in this situation and went to the new owner, sony animation, one of the three countries of Hollywood animation today (the other two are Disney/Pixar, Lighting Entertainment).
Sony animation, has a long history, in the first 10 years of the new century, the era of animation "Old Three Kingdoms" surging ups and downs, Sony Animation with the "Jungle Strikes Back" and "Surf Penguin" in the animation giant to share a lot of market share, let people shine, and then Sony Animation continued to work hard, created the "Smurfs" series and "Elf Hostel" series that swept the world, until with "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe", defeated Disney, Pixar, Lighting Entertainment and other strong brigades, won the Oscar Best Animation Award that year. Only then did many viewers realize that Sony Animation has long become one of the top three animation companies in the global animation film market share.
The high-profile entertainment with its vivid flags, colorful graphics, interesting characters, and brain-opening hilarious plots are all impressive. It can be seen that the style of Sony animation is very clear - it has achieved the ultimate on the road of family entertainment. Kirk de Miko, from DreamWorks, has the typical dreamworks director's characteristics - in addition to entertainment, he also uses all his strength to make a fuss about imagination and emotion, and sets off the idea of family and true love through those creative gimmicks, which is vividly reflected in "Crazy Primitive Man".
So Sony Animation's collaboration with the director of DreamWorks brought high-profile entertainment and imaginative and warm stories to Honey Bear's Musical Journey.
The protagonist of this film, Vivo, is a honey bear. Honey bear is a kind of raccoon living in South America, typical of the "rare species of South America", which is cute and cute. And Vivo in "Honey Bear's Musical Journey" is the first time to appear on the big screen of the movie and is the protagonist of the Honey Bear, and the refreshing it brings is self-evident.
Therefore, in the recently exposed "Honey Bear Birth" behind-the-scenes special, you can see a large number of vivid and cute honey bear images, from the realistic appearance to the animation modeling, there is a designer's meticulous consideration and image design. And the team specifically requested that Vivo the Honey Bear should have a unique painting style between reality and cartoons, which needed to make him feel like an animal while also having the characteristics of a Honey Bear; in terms of dynamics, he needed to achieve physical flexibility such as acrobatics and playing music, and also let him present the characteristics of an excellent dancer. This anthropomorphic feature is Sony's strength, because Sony Animation is very good at shooting animal animation, do not forget, they are relying on "Jungle Strike", "Surf Penguin" and other animal-themed cartoons to start, the anthropomorphic style of animal images, so that animated characters are given a soul, this tradition can not be lost.
Set against the backdrop of vivid characters, another highlight of the film is that it is a story full of love, which is kirk de Mico's strength.
From this special edition of the film, we can also understand the full picture of the story, in the film Andrei is a street artist who has been with music for many years, Vivo learned all kinds of South American music from him, they are connected by music, become a loving family that accompanies each other, and is also a unique music group. But Andre's death shattered the situation in which they were with each other, and in order to fulfill his last wish, Vivo decided to embark on an adventure to deliver the music score of love to his beloved. He teamed up with the cool girl Gabi and crossed South America to adventure for love, embarked on a joyful journey of surprise and thrill, and gained love and dreams.
The emotional bond between Vivo and Andre exists in every corner of the film, with a faint sadness, but more of a thick warmth. In addition to warmth, the audience will also "harvest" a super cute honey bear with fluffy hair and eyes occupying half of its face.
Finally, as an animated film, there is a lot of musical blessing in the film, so the film invited The Broadway phenomenon gold medal music producer Lin-Manuel Miranda to create a variety of original compositional soundtracks. Whether it is a brisk lyrical song, or a cheerful rap tune; whether it is pop music or electronic music, whether it is a wonderful individual performance, or the tacit cooperation between Vivo the Honey Bear and Grandpa Andrei, all of them are full of rhythm, so that the whole movie is full of rhythm, and people can't help but follow the picture and music and indulge in it. Coupled with the colorful and imaginative pictures, the well-known landmarks such as the well-known Havana Square and the romantic and comfortable Corniche are perfectly restored, making people feel as if they are on the streets of Havana, and the audience sitting in the cinema seems to be able to experience the original South American style!
High-profile entertainment attributes, imaginative plot and warm story, as well as colorful pictures and beautiful music, this is the "Honey Bear's Musical Journey" under the strong cooperation, bringing the attributes of word-of-mouth popularity and unaired heat. Such animated films have also become favorable contenders for many awards such as Best Animation, Best Song, and Best Original Music at next year's Oscars.
The film has been confirmed to be introduced, I hope to hurry up and finalize the mainland, can't wait until the release date, take my family and children, and go to the cinema to feel the charm of the best animation of the year.