The Book of Life is without any doubt the best animated Hollywoodmovie of the year! It has been a while since I've seen so much narrative creativity, magnificent colours and wonderful animation coming from Tinseltown. Producer Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) chose this one well. With songs from Mumford & Sons, Pixies, Elvis Presley, Rod Stewart, Biz Markie and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros being sung by the cast, it even gets a pleasant musical vibe. Add a strong female character (Maria) and the great voices of Ice Cube, Cheech Marin, Gabriel Iglesias, Plácido Domingo and Danny Trejo (none of them are main characters but they are, ironically, more memorable than Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman and Christina Applegate) and you've got yourself one of the most enjoyable pictures of the year. According to director Jorge R. Gutierrez this is the first part of a trilogy. If the writing for the next two movies is as good as this one, I will be looking forward to those chapters! Especially the one about Maria should be awesome. Make your inner child see The Book of Life. Really.
Review of The Book of Life
