HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- funny
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When reporter Dan Geraldo arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery... With his resourceful local guide Pablito, D an has one surprise after another during a thrilling adventure that allows him to bring the world some spectacular news: the Marsupilami, a mythical and mischievous animal, really does exist! You too will believe in furry tails!
Our read · HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · adventure · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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