Take the Flight of ILLUMINATION to the cinema from 7 December and previewed on 2 e 3 December
Take Flight is an animated film directed by Benjamin Renner, screenplay by Benjamin Renner and Mike White, the Italian voices are by Serena Rossi and Francesco Scianna.
SYNOPSIS: The Mallard family is trapped in their rut. While dad Mack is happy to keep his family safe by endlessly sailing their New England pond, Mom Pam is intent on shaking up their lives and showing them to their children – the teenager Dax and the young duck Gwen – the whole world. After a family of migratory ducks lands on their pond telling exciting stories of faraway places, Pam convinces Mack to take a family road trip, passing through New York City, up to tropical Jamaica. As the Mallards head south for the winter, their well-laid plans quickly fall apart. The experience will stimulate them to expand their horizons, to open up to new friends, to accomplish more than they ever imagined, but above all it will teach them more about each other – and about themselves – more than they ever thought.
Review
In educating and raising a child, a parent can be overprotective or become an active and curious guide in discovering new places and people together.
Does not exist, obviously, the perfect parent, but certainly in a close-knit and in love couple the defects of one are compensated by the other and vice versa.
“Take Flight” by Benjamin Renner, new film in the Illumination, face lightly , intelligence and the right dose of irony, this delicate and universal passage of any parent.
If generally it is the mother who wants to keep her children and the father who pushes them out of the house, in the case of our cute duck family, the roles are reversed. No one can stop progress, nor delude yourself into thinking you can lock yourself in a bubble forever. Mack's overprotective parental illusion fades, when he understands how his attitude risks leaving him alone and, even worse, compromising the future and happiness of his family.
“Take flight” is the joyful and colorful story, although not without risks and threats (all coming from man), of Mack and his family's migration to Jamaica, during which family relationships and balance will change and improve. But above all he will make the good Mack discover himself, the pleasure of taking risks by facing challenges that are almost impossible for a duck. The narrative is enjoyable viewing, enjoyable despite having a rather predictable script in its developments, the classic and safe family film, in which each component will be able to find themselves and reflect themselves.
Ilumination offers a further welcome surprise to its audience, presenting before the film, the short “Stralunato” starring Vector (the first "villain" of Despicable Me" ) and the inevitable Minios.
Vittorio De Agrò (RS)