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Apparently Netflix are taking it down after one week free, so if you've not seen it check it out!

A great adaptation of a comic into a animation and a great story in general. Well worth your time!





Wiki is also an interesting read as it appears Disney were backing it at one stage through one of their many sub-firms; only to close the firm and block the film until Netflix picked it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimona_(film)

Really good movie. Strongly recommend.

Also one of my favorites. Watched it several times with my kids

Great movie, truly hilarious ^^.

Also, a not-so-veiled transgender allegory which works really well and it's not forced in the slightest.

 Albertorius wrote:
Great movie, truly hilarious ^^.

Also, a not-so-veiled transgender allegory which works really well and it's not forced in the slightest.

I think it works because they never really establish it as being for anything in particular. It works on multiple levels of someone being different and alone. Which leaves it free for the viewer to interpret it in their own way and make their own connections.

If you know the original comic and the author it isn't really an allegory but the author mostly self discovering through his characters.

The movie changed a lot of things, but that core aspect of Nimona is still there.

It's ages since I last read the comic when it was free as a webcomic. I do recall it going into more detail and being slower paced (as books/comics often tend to be over film adaptations).


I also seem to recall that the relationship between the two male protagonists was kept more in the dark until later in the comic, whilst in the film its very much evident from the start.



Also honestly I really liked how that was handled too. It wasn't a case of highlighting their relationship in any way within the setting, it just was as it was and a totally normal part of the world. The setting and the film didn't remake on it at all as anything "out of the ordinary" nor extreme nor anything.

My son watched this with his friends while I was working. They were laughing a lot. Sounded like a successful movie to me.

 Overread wrote:
It's ages since I last read the comic when it was free as a webcomic. I do recall it going into more detail and being slower paced (as books/comics often tend to be over film adaptations).

The comic was both darker and more violent. The movie has a lot of "cartoonish violence" that hand waves away the consequences while the comic... doesn't (well outside of violence inflicted on Nimona, as it is an important plot point she is pretty much indestructible unless you can disrupt her shapeshifting).

Ballister is also older and way more bitter in the comic, and thus his relationship with Ambrosius is framed in an even more tragic light.

True; in the comic he's been battling for a lot longer. I believe it picks up when Nimona basically finds him and its been a decent period of time (I think even years?) during which he's been exiled. The film speeds up a lot of that phase and also shows us that event right up front, whilst in the comic we had to learn it.

Honestly I think its likely a good change as it lets the film cover a LOT of ground in an effective storytelling way.