Attack of the kewpie dolls, eh?
Does the idea of turning Cthulhu into a minion and calling it – unknowingly – Spot deeply amuse you or fill you with disgust?
If the former, then Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom (2016) might be a suitable night’s entertainment.
But don’t go into this expecting to be impressed. This effort, while entertaining in parts, suffers from second-rate animation, such as a lack of tracks when traversing snow fields, poor artistic choices (I agree with my Artistic Editor), minions of the antagonist being radically underwhelming and vaguely amusing when they should have served to put Howard in mortal peril, and some plot holes that needed cleaning up.
The result, while it has its moments and made me laugh a couple of times, is generally a bit disappointing. There’s a sense that it could have been quite a bit more, but the makers didn’t quite see how much better it could have been.
And they didn’t put Cthulhu in a tutu. Very disappointing.
