![]() ![]() Leap movie full#Either it’s horrible like the scene I described or its predictable like the ending or it’s vulgar screenwriting 101 malarkey with a full on false crisis, false dawn, real crisis, real dawn structure. This scene along with pretty much all of the third act is filled with horrific, irritating and pathetic contrivance. I won’t spoil the rest of the scene for those who wish to gawk at it in awe, besides you can likely predict the outcome. She then chases Felicie with the wrench in hand, chasing her up to the top of a tall statue with the intent of pushing her off to her death. The scene begins with this large, evil woman whacking Victor in the head with a wrench. The third act chucks all of that character development in favor of a forced, nonsensical plot conflict because the people who made Leap didn’t care to put in the work to create a more genuine conflict that didn’t undercut their main character.Īnd this brings me back to the scene I mentioned before where McKinnon’s evil mother character chases Felicie and Victor with murderous intent. That this turns out to be a mistake that she regrets is a given but the fact that it happens at all is a testament to the film’s incredibly forced writing and plot which has little respect for the audience or even its own characters.īear in mind that to this point in the film Felicie’s character has been tested by her cheating her way into the ballet school but once she gets into the ballet company the story becomes about her passion and dedication. She then, with little to no prompting tells Jepsen’s kindly Odette “You’re not my mother” before storming out to skip her practice and go be with a boy. Of the many good examples of how little Hollywood cares for children’s tiny little brains, I give you the third act of Leap which kicks off with Felicie deciding to go on a date with a jerky fellow dancer (voiced by Tamier Kapelian) instead of practicing for the biggest moment of her young life. Because, apparently, Hollywood hates your children. ![]() Leap movie movie#Yes, this lovely movie about a young girl dreaming of life in the ballet contains a scene where a young boy lights his fart. There are lovely moments in Leap but for each lovely moment there is a head-scratchingly awful moment such as a montage of Victor regaling Felicie with his own Paris adventure which he describes as triumph while we suffer/watch footage of him stumbling, falling and at one point lighting farts. Eventually, Felicie’s ruse is uncovered by the evil mother of her bratty rival (voiced in typically over the top manner by SNL star Kate McKinnon), and Felicie must fight for her chance to remain in class and in competition for the lead role in a major production or end up being sent back to the orphanage. Odette used to be a dancer herself and in one of the film’s many abandoned plot strands, her background as a famed dancer is barely mentioned before it is pushed aside. There she meets Odette (voiced by Carly Rae Jepsen) who becomes her mentor and mother figure.Īfter Felicie nabs an invitation to attend the famed dance company from a talented but bratty rival (voiced by Maddie Ziegler) she begins attending classes while Odette begins to train her in secret. While Victor dreams inventing a way to fly, Felicie dreams of being a dancer and her dream is what drives the plot as she quite literally stumbles her way into the most prestigious dance company in Paris. Leap tells the story of Felicie (voiced by Elle Fanning) and her friend Victor (voiced by Nat Wolff) who escape from an orphanage on the outskirts of France and head to Paris to achieve their dreams. Now, I get it, they’re animated but the choice made here is so incredibly forced and horrible that it doesn’t feel like Elmer Fudd’s failed attempts to murder Bug Bunny but something far more grim, ugly and worst of all, unnecessary. Take for instance the new animated family movie Leap which, while it tells a lovely story of an aspiring ballerina, spends a portion of its third act following a crazy woman as she attempts to murder two orphan children. It’s bizarre to me at times the things we feel are alright simply because they are animated. ![]()
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