lucky it lacks the extraordinary but not the essential. The new movie of AppleTV+ It takes place without the viewer feeling surprised or embraced by that narrative world. Even so, with the passage of time, whoever watches it will understand: it is not a production to remember or discuss for hours, but to rediscover one of the values of cinema, to entertain in a simple way. If you add to that aspect that it is a film children, applause is heard.
The most commercial children’s productions of recent years tend to repeat a formula. They are films presented for children and young people, with the background of wanting to speak to adults. Intensely It may be the paradigmatic example in that sense. A pleasant, entertaining story, close to boys and girls, and with a series of references that could be better understood in adulthood. lucky It does not forget that it will also reach an adult audience, the parents who will accompany their children, but it is still a production for the youngest.
That principle is adhered to through a fantastic universe, motivated by the classic myth of the lucky elves. They are beings who, within luckyThey are on a plane alien to humans. The middle between one and the other is a cat, Bob (in the voice of simon pegg), who approaches Sam Greenfield (in voice of Eve Noble) overnight and misplaces his lucky coin. Neglect will be the beginning of a conflictive relationship.
The fantastic universe luckyon Apple TV+
Being able to sustain in the charm of the streets of California, New York or some other well-known locality in the United States, lucky of Apple TV + gives little travel to these plans to enter the world of elves, where luck and bad luck coexist, they occur. Sam chases Bob to this place, with the aim of reaching what he was carrying: a coin of good fortune.
The detail? It is forbidden for humans. His daring allows us to discover a world in which luck is also represented from a capitalist perspective and, in some sense, recreating the most sought-after topics. Good luck in love and/or at work. Good luck in sports and/or music. For each petition there is a department in charge of distributing it. Sam finds herself in a place where she abounds in what she doesn’t have, fortune, by representing the opposite: everything goes wrong for her.
By contrasting a character with his environment, Director Peggy Holmes relies on her leading lady to journey into a fantastical world that can enchant boys and girls alike., while Bob, the black cat, becomes an empathic bond: how to refuse a cute little animal? Felines are often attributed many virtues, such as independence and intelligence. But, in this film, another layer is added to that mythology: they are beings that come and go between worlds.
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Sam wants her friend to have a kinder childhood than the one she had. To achieve this, she enters into a plan marked by fortune and a lucky coin. On that trip, Bob, a black cat, crosses her path. lucky is an animated children’s film that does not want to speak to adults, but rather offers boys and girls an experience to be enchanted by the language of cinema.
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The drama begins to unfold when, in search of a lucky coin, Sam and Bob destroy the place where good and bad fortune are managed. So Sam can’t get what he’s looking for to help Hazel (in the voice of Adelynn Spoon), an orphan girl whom Sam wants to bring to a family. This knot is key within the story, not only because she discovers the protagonist’s mission, but also because her management sets the tone of lucky.
The relationship between Hazel and Sam could have motivated a journey towards the Sam dramas, from a psychological perspective, even more emotional, more adult. But it doesn’t happen like that. Is it a narrative problem? Nope. It is a decision based on what the film wants to be: a children’s film, a journey so that the little ones can enter a plane full of color and charming beings without disconnecting from human aspects; a field of illusions to let yourself be embraced by the magic of cinema and, at the same time, do not forget that life can be —and usually is— more complex.
During that journey, the message of lucky and Apple TV+. True to the meaning of these productions, the film shows (it does not tell) that true luck lies in the people with whom it is shared on a day-to-day basis, not in the result of one or another circumstance or in the qualities that are attributed to objects. without aspiring to be a memorable feature film, it can be one that invites boys and girls to continue watching more productions, to let themselves be enchanted by the magic of cinema.