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It was fun and cute, gorgeous animation, but the third act heavily carries the whole thing. I do like that its a film where the main protagonist hides a secret that does actually hurt her relationship with friends and family (as short lived as it was) instead of being instantly accepted like Pixar and Disney movies.
But so much from everything else is just alright. You can tell the movie was retooled from an R-rated film to a standard Netflix family movie by how several scenes are characters delivering exposition on the world, how they feel, and their flaws. Like they cut out many scenes showing those flaws and emotions, and decided to just say it to the audience, so they get the message. And the woman who raised them is so nonexistent in the movie that she may as well have been cut out. She's like in 3 scenes, and yet she is responsible for everything in the movie. Though maybe they saw that generational trauma is overplayed in animation and decided to move away from that. Maybe not the worst call. It's so funny how this and Elio both release the same day and they are both original films that retooled their entire movie after getting further along with it. Just goes to show sometimes you need to stick with what you got.
But I will give it extra credit for having good music and a good enemies-to-lovers subplot for once in Netflix's life (and a straight one? Inconceivable). Animation deserves to go to the big screens but plot wise it is 100% a Netflix movie.