LION BOYS, how do you rate this animated movie?

Everyone generally loved this animated movie and predicted that it might reach 2 billion dollars at the box office, or even higher. In hindsight, it turns out that people grossly overestimated the box office. So, does this mean that critics also overestimated the quality of Lion Boy? I don't think it's possible to judge a movie by its box office, as if the fact that The Lion Boy didn't blow up at the box office means it's not that good. In fact, it's not just Douban that has excellent word-of-mouth, but also on the more popular Cat's Eye and Ticketmaster, where "Lion Boy" got 9.5 and 9.3 points respectively.

The excellence of "Lion Boy" cannot be dismissed. For example, its visual effects represent the first-class level of domestic animation: every hair on the lion's head stands up to close-up inspection and comes alive; the scenes in the city and countryside are highly realistic and very lifelike; the action scenes are running on clouds and flowing water and wonderful ...... It can be said that the technical scheduling of the animated film and the use of light and shadow are pure.

Story level, "Lion Boy" out of the domestic animation is mainly confined to the myths and legends, folk tales of the arena, this is a based on the local, completely original story, combined with the lion dance such as the traditional culture, highlighting the style of the national tide, is the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture.

The more courageous thing is that "Lion Dance Boys" has a strong color of realism: the three lion dance boys are left-behind children who are subjected to a lot of bullying; in order to cure their father's illnesses, Ajuan becomes a "migrant laborer", and suffers a lot of pain in the big city....... From the experiences of the three lion dance boys, we can see that the three lion dance boys have a lot to learn. From the experiences of the three young lion dancers, we can see the imbalance between urban and rural development, as well as the hardships and bitterness of the youngsters in the rural underclass.

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Both on the technical level and the content level, "Lion Dancing Boys" is indeed an 8-point masterpiece. Of course, not every highly rated movie becomes a hit. Multiple factors prevented "The Lion Boy" from breaking the circle.

As far as the movie itself is concerned, the strengths of "The Lion Boy" could also be its commercial limitations. The realism of the art makes many viewers feel that "Lion Boy" is perfectly suited for a live-action movie, but its subtext is that the camera-breaking, free and romantic imagination that animated films possess is precisely the part of "Lion Boy" that is relatively lacking. It is important to realize that a thriving and rich imagination helps to break the circle and appeal to a wider audience.