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Is A Monster Calls OK for your child? Read Common Sense Media\'s movie review to help you make informed decisions. A Monster Calls. Young actor Lewis Mac. Dougall impresses in JA Bayona\'s imaginative but overly sentimental fantasy tale about a child dealing with the horrors of real life. Or \'Pan\'s Labyrinth 2: The Oscar Years\'.
When Spanish filmmaker JA Bayona\'s debut \'The Orphanage\' was released back in 2. Guillermo del Toro: creepy and inventive, the film bore a notable debt to the Mexican maestro\'s chilly masterpiece of wartime horror, \'The Devil\'s Backbone\'. Bayona\'s follow- up, the disaster movie \'The Impossible\', may have quieted those voices temporarily, but expect them to rise again, full- throated, when \'A Monster Calls\' arrives in cinemas. Adapted by author Patrick Ness from his dour, dreamlike not- quite- kids\'- book about an imaginative boy who conjures a writhing, ent- like tree- monster to help him deal with his mother\'s worsening cancer, this ambitious, often awkward, intermittently striking fairytale- horror- cum- disease- drama feels like the movie Del Toro would produce if he was suddenly struck down with Oscar fever. Connor (Lewis Mac. Dougall) is finding life a struggle: his mother Lizzie (Felicity Jones) is dying by degrees, his grandma (a miscast Sigourney Weaver) is brittle and loveless and his dad (Toby Kebbell) only makes the trip back from America when it suits him. So when a 4. 0- foot monster (granite- voiced by Liam Neeson) tears itself out of a nearby yew tree and comes rampaging into Connor\'s life, he\'s glad of the distraction. But why has the beast come? Or just to tell him a series of prettily animated fairy stories? It\'s hard to know who the audience might be for \'A Monster Calls\': too scary and bleak for kids, it\'ll likely prove too whimsical and meandering for most grown- ups. Bayona shot the film in Lancashire - notably in the gloriously named mill town of Ramsbottom, north of Manchester - but that landscape\'s industrial wildness is rarely reflected in the film itself. And it doesn\'t help that the town\'s inhabitants - even the scruffy ruffians who gang up on Connor at school - all speak like they\'ve just left stage school. But on the rare occasions that the film loosens up, it springs to life: Mac. Dougall is a charismatic lead, and when he\'s not tied to the script – as in a pair of wild, full- throated scenes of wilful destruction – he lifts the entire film. The climax is unexpectedly powerful, with a genuinely sharp, emotionally bracing sting in the tale (a pity, though, that Bayona lets the sentimental aftermath run on as long as he does). The result is strange and memorable, but frustratingly over- polite. There\'s a gripping, dark, truly monstrous film lurking in here somewhere, but Bayona seems hell- bent on keeping it at bay. Conor (Lewis Mac. Dougall), dealing with his mother\'s (Felicity Jones) illness, a less- than- sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying classmates, finds a most unlikely ally when a Monster appears at his bedroom window. Ancient, wild, and relentless, the Monster guides Conor on a journey of courage, faith, and truth. Toby Kebbell plays Conor\'s father, and Liam Neeson stars in performance- capture and voiceover as the nocturnally visiting Monster of the title. Liam Neeson is the voice of the monster in this touching and beautiful film based on the Carnegie award-winning children’s book. Sinopsis : FILM A Monster Calls menceritakan kehidupan seorang anak bernama Conor yang akan diperankan oleh Lewis MacDougall. Conor pada saat itu berusia 12 tahun. A Monster Calls Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Felicity Jones Movie A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mom\'s terminal illness.
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