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Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
I was super excited to see the next animated film from the team of Director Sarah Smith and co-writer (and long term comedy genius) Peter Baynham 10-years after their glorious ‘Arthur Christmas’. That movie was perfection on every creative level, so is ‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’ as good? Well no but it is excellent and I haven’t yet rewatched it every Christmas for a decade! For your typical Pixar type family movie, it’s a timely and surprisingly sharp satire on the generation of kids born into the age of ubiquitous social-media. The only bum note for me was having your standard “Jafar” type antagonist, a gleeful perpetrator of the Facebook-alike company’s evil deeds, leaving the tech whizz-kid figurehead (also called Marc) to come out the innocent hero. It would’ve been more truthful to have them be the same character. There are definite shades of ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ and ‘Short Circuit’ to the premise, which puts it in good company. The “Insert Registered Name” / “Absalom!” joke made me laugh every time, I wish they had repeated it even more than they already did.
Then I had my annual rewatch of 'Arthur Christmas', then watched 'Ron's Gone Wrong' again! Good times.
I was super excited to see the next animated film from the team of Director Sarah Smith and co-writer (and long term comedy genius) Peter Baynham 10-years after their glorious ‘Arthur Christmas’. That movie was perfection on every creative level, so is ‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’ as good? Well no but it is excellent and I haven’t yet rewatched it every Christmas for a decade! For your typical Pixar type family movie, it’s a timely and surprisingly sharp satire on the generation of kids born into the age of ubiquitous social-media. The only bum note for me was having your standard “Jafar” type antagonist, a gleeful perpetrator of the Facebook-alike company’s evil deeds, leaving the tech whizz-kid figurehead (also called Marc) to come out the innocent hero. It would’ve been more truthful to have them be the same character. There are definite shades of ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ and ‘Short Circuit’ to the premise, which puts it in good company. The “Insert Registered Name” / “Absalom!” joke made me laugh every time, I wish they had repeated it even more than they already did.
Then I had my annual rewatch of 'Arthur Christmas', then watched 'Ron's Gone Wrong' again! Good times.