Nimona (PG, 102mins) Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane **** ½
“Some of us do not find happiness when we expect it, because it is not this kind of kingdom. And this is not that kind of story. “
Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) was one who thought the fairy tale ending would be his, until what should have been a successful night turned into a seemingly endless one.
The first commoner in the 1000th century to be offered the chance to study to become a scholar, she graduated from high school – even ahead of her boyfriend Ambrosius Goldenloin (Eugene Lee Yang).
Afraid of how the assembled crowd would greet his controversial honor, Ballister’s fears are eased by Ambrosius’ assurance that he has “worked better and harder than the rest of us”.
“They’ll love you – just like I do.”
It has been given
Nimona is an adaptation of ND Stevenson’s 2015 graphic-winning novel of the same name.
However, instead of praise, the shock is an overreaction, when Ballister finds his sword has been transformed into a highly magical one, which hits Queen Valerin (Lorraine Toussaint) and causes the crowd to flee for their lives.
After losing an arm to Ambrosius in the ensuing melee, Ballister evades capture, but is left confused and oblivious to what has just happened.
As he contemplates his next adventure, a young girl appears out of the shadows. Introducing himself to Nimona (Chloe Grace Moretz), he offers her a job as a sidekick to help her “give back to the world”.
While Ballister argues that it’s not what he wants, he just wants to say his name, Nimona tries to convince him that he’ll only look bad now, “no matter how hard you try”. It’s a belief that is confirmed when Ballister tries to plead his innocence only to be immediately imprisoned.
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Chloe Grace Moretz is the voice of the lively, ferocious Nimona.
Unlike the others, Nimona doesn’t want to let him undress. “I take you out, chaos, destruction, something, something, something, we win,” he says, walking her to her room. Scorning such ideas, Ballister is shocked when he reveals his shape-shifting powers that allow him to change into any animal he wants.
“Why are you helping me?” he asks, once he’s temporarily safe in his hideout that Nimona has now turned into a “hideout”.
“Because I’m tired – and everyone hates you too.”
It has been given
Nimona is a beautiful, wonderfully told, satirical, fun and entertaining human drama that can be seen as a bold, powerful allegory in its entirety, or simply as a fun, heartbreaking, circular tale.
Modern, non-musical Beauty and the Beast. This generation’s Shrek. The long-awaited adaptation of ND Stevenson’s 2015’s award-winning novel (Twenty Century Fox’s Blue Sky Studios began work the same year, before being abandoned by parent company Disney when it was about ¾ finished in 2021) arrived slowly. radar, but it deserves to be discovered by anyone who likes animation – especially those who have something to say.
“She’s smart, kind and sophisticated,” Ballister says of his pine companion (albeit ironically) at one point – and so is the film’s Nimona. This is a brilliant, wonderfully told, unfunny, crowd-pleasing comedy that can be seen as a bold, powerful metaphor for inclusion, or simply as a fun, edgy, spin-off story that is the answer to 2023. to Turning Red – a film that seems to be crime was rejected from our cinemas while good, quality family films are seen as inferior.
It has been given
In Nimona, the troubled soldier Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) receives help from an unexpected source.
Much of Nimona’s charm comes from the eponymous anti-hero. Moretz (Shadow in the Cloud) fills the pizza with a “teenage” heavy metal fan with just the right amount of sass, a sharp tongue and a seemingly intelligent self-confidence that’s hard not to like. But sometimes his exterior is scornful, scornful, sometimes he reveals real fear: “I don’t know what’s so scary.” The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to kill even my heart with a sword…or sometimes, I just want to leave them.”
As it turns out, spies in disguise’s duo Nick Bruno and Troy Quane’s (the latter is also acting as one of the six writers) latest film is not one you should leave your little ones to take on themselves.
Besides, you’ll be missing out on one of the funniest, funniest and most thought-provoking films of the year so far – one that suggests pineapple on pizza and suggests that “cutting off an arm is not the language of love”.
Nimona is now available to stream on Netflix.
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