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ReviewA Mighty Adventure movie review: wordless animation by McDull director is breezy if flawed
Hong Kong director Toe Yuen’s film about insects surviving the city is a visual marvel, though dialogue would have made it more expressive
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3/5 stars
A trio of slightly anthropomorphised insects look to survive the big city and return to their natural habitat in A Mighty Adventure, the latest effort by Hong Kong director Toe Yuen Kin-to, best known for a pair of local classics: the 2001 hit My Life as McDull and its even better sequel, McDull, Prince de la Bun (2004).
Remarkably for one of the city’s most acclaimed animation directors, Yuen’s new feature is his first not adapted from existing material; previous works include animated versions of Stephen Chow Sing-chi’s CJ7 (2008) and the comic book series The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes. Yuen’s ambition for A Mighty Adventure, which he also scripted, is palpable.
A few idyllic opening minutes set in the countryside introduce the protagonists: a young grasshopper that can’t quite jump like the rest of its family; a butterfly that sprinkles stardust and instantly bewitches the grasshopper; and a bubbly little spider that, perhaps traumatised by its mother’s table manners, yearns to befriend the other two.
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