Xico's Journey

Very accurate view of the risks of unsustainable mining and consequences for nature and people and ... fun!

A girl, a dog and their best friend set out to save a mountain from a company greedy for gold. But the key is closer to home, with her helper pup, Xico. Very cute and beautful...

I watched it with my goddaughter, it didn't arouse much interest, despite the colorful and charming graphics, the story full of legends and mysticism, something was missing... A delicate and gentle Mexican production, with social criticism of unbridled modernization and lack of respect for native culture, cute, instructive, colorful, with endearing animals, but regular, for not having touched my heart with the depth I expected...

(English below)

La trama es contradictoria y apenas sobre Xico, la calidad de la animación oscila entre decente e embarazosa, es bien obvio que los escritores no entienden que es el fracking porque lo describieron como un antivaxer describe las vacunas.

Y lo más horrible la película parece usar la raza como un símbolo de la moralidad de sus personajes.

Pero me gustó El Tlacuache, él fue fantástico, estuve completamente absorto cada vez el estuvo en la pantalla.

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The plot is contradictory and Hardly about Xico, the quality of animation varies between decent and cringeworthy and its very obvious that the writers don't know understand what fracking is because they talk about fracking like an antivaxer talks about vaccines.

Worst of all they use race as shorthand for the morality of the characters.

I did like the possum(el tlacuache), he was great, I was completely absorbed whenever he was on the screen.

A Mexican animated film. It is about some people from a town who want to knock down a mountain and a girl with her best friend and her dog must save her. Excess of imagination that pleases. Characteristics of Mexican culture, although at times she feels loaded with a doctor, she makes a wonderful journey through culture: Mexican animals, joy. In 2D, although the animation is good, certain gestures and expressions in the characters were left behind. Parsimonious at times. It starts at a good pace and in the middle you feel that it lengthens a lot but the character to whom Alex Lora lends the voice completely saves the film and is the one who takes the comedy part, bringing the film to fruition. Predictable like all of the genre. Ideal for the whole family.

This's something kids will enjoy. It has an easy to follow story with fairly likable (if bland) characters. If you're looking for Spanish-language content, this's for you. The animation's pretty good, the story flows well, and the characters are pretty likable.

I'd say check it out.