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I wasn't expecting much from an animated film with an original story, much less one with as little publicity as Elio, considering the production and distribution companies involved. Despite having a somewhat unengaging and perhaps outdated script (a plot like this would have been successful 20 or 30 years ago), the film manages to be entertaining, offering several lessons for its young audience, just as any fable does in its final lines.

The developers' imagination is excellent. The production design is the highlight, and when it's possible, it's done; if you have a story set in space, you can literally do anything.

The characters lacked development and came across as a bit flat, but I insist, even with all its clear shortcomings, Elio, as a film, manages to be entertaining, surprising, and even moving at certain points.

Recommended? Absolutely.

I'm sorry to the fans of this duology, but this sequel is awful. The script is terrible. Logic, comedy, and entertainment are all lost throughout the film. The editing is irritating. There are many pointless cuts, many transitions that don't fit with the sequences shown, and the final cut is abysmal. Despite being a film under two hours long, it feels like endless torture.

Freakier Friday is one of the worst comedies of its year and a film I recommend avoiding at all costs.

Whatever I write in this review could apply to both this film and the original 2010 animated version. The only differences are two clear things: The visual effects in 2025 are top-notch, highlighting photorealism even in fictional creatures; and I sincerely hope the sequel is a fresh, new story within the same saga, so the audience doesn't suddenly lose interest, like the end of this review.