![]() But suspension of disbelief is already a must in a film which claims the residents of Seoul would just stick around at home despite nightly visitations from monsters who threaten to crush them. Vigalondo’s cultish track record will help with genre devotees who might worry Colossal is a rom-com in disguise, but a huge fanboy embrace is unlikely for this odd romp through childhood trauma.ĭon’t get your hopes up: This monster’s origin makes less sense than a third-rate superhero’s, and the idea that nobody involved remembers the events is a huge head-scratcher. ![]() The least of the three films but certainly not without its pleasures, this oddball outing owes most of its commercial appeal to the surprising presence of two A-list Americans, Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis, whose characters find themselves in the middle of this phenomenon. ![]() Then there are the kaiju-movie troublemakers in Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal, an alien beast and Transformer-ish robot that materialize in Seoul for a few minutes each night to terrify and puzzle townspeople. The opening weekend of the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival is stalked by a pack of gargantuan metaphor-monsters: Liam Neeson’s wisdom-dispensing tree in A Monster Calls and a deformed man’s fairy-tale avatar in Johannes Nyholm’s The Giant. ![]()
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