A loving and truly cinematic ode to the epic western movies of old disguised as a Nickelodeon kids movie about talking animals! The animation is truly something else, it's breathtakingly stylized to enhance in the atmosphere of its bleak desert badlands setting and the action sequences are all exciting and full of so many simultaneously moving details that make it impossible not to marvel at. I really appreciate in particular how unafraid the film is to make many of its…

I… just… wow.

This is the one of the only times summarizing on my thoughts on a film during which I don’t know where to begin with how profoundly it impacted me. It is so bleak, so disturbing, so emotionally devastating that I was left with no other reaction to it upon leaving the theater than feeling I had been gutted open like a fish. Not only because of how it is a technically high-quality movie designed to make one…