Film Name: 熊出没·伴我”熊芯” / Boonie Bears: Guardian Code
There’s an interesting saying about the Spring Festival in the past few years, referring to the “Bears” series of movies as the “gatekeepers” and “watershed” movies. I’ll explain this a little bit: only those that can surpass it at the box office are considered movies that have passed both word-of-mouth and market feedback.
But the subtext of this statement still treats the “Bears” movie as a harmless mascot …… But unbeknownst to us, this animated movie series, which was born from a humble TV version, has gradually grown into a side-splitting juggernaut.
I’m not supposed to write a review of Boonie Bears: Guardian Code (hereafter referred to as Guardian Code), but after dragging my family to see it today, I couldn’t help but be pleasantly surprised:
This Guardian Code is really top-notch, if you don’t take into account the fact that it must serve the parent-child theme of the fall, slightly straight to the regrettable operation, on the film this skillful commercial purity, is enough to hang on to most of the commercial films on the market.
[Friendly reminder: there will be spoilers below].
Given that the “Bears” franchise is still essentially a family movie with a “high price-performance ratio,” I won’t go into the audiovisual performance of “Guardian Code,” which is generally adequate.
It’s the choice of subject matter that’s worth mentioning, as the series has already tried its hand at different genres/styles/elements such as mythology, fantasy, crossover, sci-fi, adventure, etc., and this time around, it’s chosen to focus on artificial intelligence and robots.
Although this theme is not necessarily new to children, Guardian Code has a lot of tricks up its sleeve, with a high degree of thematic relevance and good control, such as making some harmless “artificial intelligence” jokes, and several important characters, props and plot points, all of which are closely related to AI.
Of course, the film surprised me most, or story structure and narrative maturity – I boast that I have accompanied my daughter to see a lot of children to the animated film, some (domestic products) really talk about the children have no respect, filled with a variety of illogical retarded plot, which is even more set off “the bear out of the “The Guardian Code
The story of “Guardian Code” is not complicated: Bear, Bear’s mother disappeared when they were young, the two bears grew up to participate in the robotics exhibition, accidentally found the clues of the mother bear, involved in the “Iron Armor Monster” event, they met the suspected mother of the robot bear, after a lot of ups and downs, they finally After some twists and turns, they finally discover the truth.
In the middle of the movie, facing the biggest suspense of the movie, my daughter quietly wondered, “If Mama Bear is a robot, how could she give birth to Big Bear?”
I was probably biased by her common sense that there is reproductive isolation between animals and machines, and I subconsciously assumed that the robot bear was a replica of Mama Bear, but when the mystery was revealed in the middle and later parts of the movie, I found that the reversal of the truth was even better than I had expected:
Mama Bear is an AI robot from the beginning, she was instructed by Mama Solo to take care of the “orphans” Xiong Da and Xiong Da, gradually transformed from a mute AI into a motherly robot bear, and then left the two children due to an attack that wiped their memory data.
The performance of this section of the scene is excellent, rich, well-paced, with the experience of the mother bear, a tribute to the first-time mother of all mothers in a hurry and infinite love for their children, so that I, a big man also followed the daughter to cry together ……
Shortly after the opening of the movie, there is a seemingly ordinary, lack of nutrients to laugh at: bald strong let bear big, bear two dressed up as robots to participate in the exhibition, they also spit out from time to time “I’m not a robot” …… results when everyone learns the truth, found that the two are really “robot children” in a way, it is not simple to play such hints and intertexts. In a way, they are really “children of robots”, and it’s not easy for them to play with such innuendo and intertextuality.
Another advantage of Guardian Code that must be mentioned is the precise use of BGM. The movie’s theme song, “Bright Moon, Shining Star,” appears in three places:
The first is the children’s song sung by Mama Bear in the opening scene when she is playing with Bear and Bear, and the close mother-child bond is self-evident; then when Robot Bear and Bear are trapped together, Robot Bear sings the song again with his back to the wall, making Bear re-conscious of the relationship that exists between Robot Bear and Mama Bear; and finally, after Mama Bear has sent Bear away safely, she sails off alone in her soon-to-be self-destructing mecha towards the ocean, and once again sings the song in farewell.
The passages where the theme song appears on these three occasions correspond to the three key points of the story: the beginning, the beginning, the end, and the end, and the narrative and lyrical ability are both highly online, which really makes me admire.
As for the climax scene of “Good vs. Evil” in the latter part of the movie, it is again a reserved part for children to watch and adults to laugh. I recalled a little bit that the action scenes in just a few minutes include but are not limited to the following: Dr. Octopus’s robotic arm in “Spider-Man 2”, the mecha in “Pacific Rim”, and the “Dangerous Wanderer’s” mecha. “Dr. Octopus’ robotic arm in Spider-Man 2, Danger Rangers’ ion cannon in Pacific Rim, The Incredibles’ spherical robot breaking the ice blasted by Iceman, tripping an AT-AT walker in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, Avengers: Endgame’s Avengers Assemble, and more – all in just a few minutes of action scenes. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, tripping an AT-AT walker in Avengers: Endgame, Avengers Assemble in Avengers: Endgame, and so on – it’s a bit harsh to call it a “sewing monster,” but I had a lot of fun with these homages.
The Guardian Code is not without its flaws, as it has to stay true to its “parent-child” theme while not betraying (or habitually retracting from) its family-friendly, kid-oriented base, so the movie will always be a bit too blunt and even unintelligent, but it’s still a very high standard of production and commercial performance. But even so, the standard of production and commercial performance is still very high.
Surely someone will say that I blew too much, this cartoon in the end or “lack of creativity, no breakthroughs and very routine” ……
The words are true, but I want to say is that now most of the children to the animated film, and even many adults to the commercial film, precisely “set of routine” is not enough, either self dwarfing, perfunctory, not at all heart to do, or self-esteem is very high, closed-door car, a mess of things out of the end of the thing still think it is very powerful.
At the very least, why don’t you at least do the minimum “set-up” before you come out to the public? From this point of view, Boonie Bears: Guardian Code is a very good positive example.
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