First off, I want to say that I had to exhaust so many options just to watch this movie. It streams on Apple TV, but only in Australia. I checked all the 🏴☠️ sites, and it seems that nobody cares about uploading an obscure Australian animated feature. I wanted to watch it in HD, but there are no Blu-Ray releases. In the end, I had to buy a DVD copy on eBay, and oof, I forgot just how low-res DVD can be when played on a 4K display. But in order to watch it at all, I first had to rip the DVD, because region locking is still somehow a thing in the year 2025.
But after buying it online, getting it shipped to the USA two weeks later, ripping it, and re-encoding it into a format my TV's USB drive agrees with, I finally was able to watch this movie!
And it was... Fine? Decent? Alright? Pretty good at parts? There were certainly some parts of the movie that resonated with me, and many scenes that rubbed me the wrong way. A lot of the scenes just showing the family of kangaroos were far and away the best parts of the film. Seeing an eccentric mother and father with their energetic children living a life full of love and joy was so good, I wish the entire movie could have been about that.
Then there was the main conflict in the movie, which basically wanted to be the Anti-Chickenhare. The general message that the movie wanted to get across is that Western archeologists should stop stealing artifacts from the indigenous peoples in Australia. That's a message I can get behind. But the way that the movie went about conveying that message fell completely flat for me. From the completely unsympathetic one-note villain to the baffling way that the movie introduced the peoples of the Lost Island, it really felt like the movie was abandoning the excellent family story so that it could start telling a much less appealing story with a message.
But you can bet that I'll be making a Complete Animation of Kara! Red is a lucky guy!
Complete Animation
I just watched The Lost Tiger.
First off, I want to say that I had to exhaust so many options just to watch this movie. It streams on Apple TV, but only in Australia. I checked all the 🏴☠️ sites, and it seems that nobody cares about uploading an obscure Australian animated feature. I wanted to watch it in HD, but there are no Blu-Ray releases. In the end, I had to buy a DVD copy on eBay, and oof, I forgot just how low-res DVD can be when played on a 4K display. But in order to watch it at all, I first had to rip the DVD, because region locking is still somehow a thing in the year 2025.
But after buying it online, getting it shipped to the USA two weeks later, ripping it, and re-encoding it into a format my TV's USB drive agrees with, I finally was able to watch this movie!
And it was... Fine? Decent? Alright? Pretty good at parts? There were certainly some parts of the movie that resonated with me, and many scenes that rubbed me the wrong way. A lot of the scenes just showing the family of kangaroos were far and away the best parts of the film. Seeing an eccentric mother and father with their energetic children living a life full of love and joy was so good, I wish the entire movie could have been about that.
Then there was the main conflict in the movie, which basically wanted to be the Anti-Chickenhare. The general message that the movie wanted to get across is that Western archeologists should stop stealing artifacts from the indigenous peoples in Australia. That's a message I can get behind. But the way that the movie went about conveying that message fell completely flat for me. From the completely unsympathetic one-note villain to the baffling way that the movie introduced the peoples of the Lost Island, it really felt like the movie was abandoning the excellent family story so that it could start telling a much less appealing story with a message.
But you can bet that I'll be making a Complete Animation of Kara! Red is a lucky guy!
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