Phantom Boy

Name: Phantom Boy
Released: 2016-7-15
Cast: Fred Armisen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jared Padaleck, Melissa Disney, Bill Lobley

Phantom Boy

PG
1h 24m
2016

88%

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New York is in trouble and only one boy can save it in this heart-thumping animated adventure from the Academy Award®-nominated directors of A Cat in Paris. When Leo discovers he has the power to leave his body and float about New York as a ghost, the 11-year-old superhero befriends Alex, a cop who was injured while trying to capture The Face, a mysterious new villain. When the gangster threatens to unleash a virus that will plunge the city into chaos, Leo and Alex have 24 hours to spot the evil plot before New York is brought to its knees!

Director:

Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli

Producer:

Jacques-Remy Girerd

Writer:

Alain Gagnol

Cast:

Fred Armisen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jared Padaleck, Melissa Disney, Bill Lobley, Dana Snyder, Marcus D'Angelo, Rachel Salvatierra

Extras

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Interview with Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli

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ONE HECK OF A PLAN

The Making of PHANTOM BOY

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Theatrical Trailer

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

88%

Critics Consensus: Phantom Boy's stunning animation and old-fashioned charm more than make up for a relative lack of narrative depth.

Reviews

Battleship Pretension

Aaron Pinkston

Overall, Phantom Boy doesn't have the dense thematic complexity that many animated films have gone for since Pixar became the industry standard but it is a simply enjoyable alternative.

Charming and inventive yet modest and unpretentious.

Phantom Boy is a visual delight but also a throwback to a simple superhero story before cinematic universes changed everything.

Leo's unnerving ability to dance between reality and waking life gives the film a metaphysical tone, yet it's riddled with comedic bits that lighten the mood.

Their quarry is a villain known only as the Man with the Broken Face, a handle that makes sense once you soak in the Picasso-like renderings of these characters, who exist in a different, hand-drawn realm to Pixar's digital might.

January 1, 2018

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