pleasantly twee awkward teen story. a touch jumbled & maybe a little too mannered to add up to more than the sum of its parts. it doesn't really manage to have any kind of emotional bite, at least for me - but it is colorful, fun, & overall a perfectly pleasant & quirky way to 80 minutes.

it has some genuinely weird moments, as you'd hope & expect, but it drones on just a bit too long, and by the end it's flirting with being a touch dull. worth a look, but i am fairly comfortable slotting it as aronofsky's weakest.

this is definitely the best 'woman's pets become people and they date' movie i've ever seen.

beautiful animation, even by pixar standards, and the ending made me cry like a 4 year old who just dropped his ice cream cone.