The new Dreamworks animated feature that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival has nothing abominable about it. It is so pleasantly nice that that the film title should be re-named “Pleasant” or perhaps “Happiness” since the setting is Shanghai, China.
In the current times of ‘more women in movies’, it is not surprising that the main protagonist is a female.. She is Yi (Chloe Bennet), a resourceful girl in a totally female family consisting of mother and granny, ‘nai nai’ right after the loss of her father. Being Chinese, she knows how to play the violin (a little stereotyping here),the instrument worth to her more than anything else in the world. What is puzzling in one…
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