The conceit is nicely done, and the film’s unexpectedly heartfelt message about empathy and looking at the world through someone else’s eyes just about makes up for its bland animation, smart-arsed script and generic clappy-blah songs.
-Cath Clarke
SMALLFOOT is an animated musical adventure that takes place high in the Himalayan mountains, where a community of yetis lives according to rules literally set into ancient stones.
Migo is prepared to follow in his father Dorgle’s footsteps as the yeti who hurls himself across a chasm every morning to ring a gong so that the “glowing snail in the sky” can wake up. But then he sees an airplane crash and comes face to face with a creature he thought was purely mythical: a “smallfoot” (human).
When Migo tells his village about his discovery, the sage Stonekeeper insists that Migo is lying and exiles him. Later, Migo teams up with Meechee, the Stonekeeper’s skeptical daughter, and a small band of smallfoot believers who also question the stones.
Migo goes beneath the clouds that surround the yetis’ mountaintop home and finally sees the human village in the valley underneath. There he crosses paths with Percy, a wildlife reality show host so desperate for ratings that he’s willing to ask his producer to dress up as a yeti for an episode. As Percy and Migo get to know each other (not verbally, because humans hear yeti speech as growling, and yetis hear human speech as gobbledygook), they realize they have more to fear from ignorance than from each other.
Overall, the movie is great for everyone! The animation, the colors, the plot, and the characters are child friendly. I would recommend this movie to those parents who want their children to be a lot more understanding to those people with differences. Because this film wants to show that respecting people’s differences can lead to peace.
Watch the trailer here:
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