Author: Michael

The experience of watching “Forgotten Island” is a bit like pounding energy drinks for two hours — you’re exceedingly buzzed and questioning if you needed that eleventh Red Bull. Directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado have put so much into their animated feature that at times it feels like it’s going to explode off the screen, stuffed with a variety of influences and ideas. The animation reflects that ambition, with an eye-popping combination of color and styles, drawing heavily from anime but with the level of detail that a major studio like DreamWorks Animation can afford. And yet the film…

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