Best movie of this year hands down!

Some things I liked some I did not.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

"Kentervilskoe prividenie" or "The Canterville Ghost" is a Soviet 20-minute short film by the Brumberg sisters and here they show us their take on the pretty famous Oscar Wilde story. It is from 1972, so has its 45th anniversary next year. It is certainly a very family friendly version, however. There are no scary moments in here, the horror component is entirely absent and instead the focus is on comedy and telling a story that also children can watch. I must say i liked the ending somehow, but everything in-between, especially everything about the family who moved in, was fairly forgettable, sometimes pretty weak even. Another example of how harmless this movie is is how we don't see the ghost sever his head, but put it back on and we only see him very briefly headless. As a whole, I cannot say I am too familiar with the original story, but this one here also does not get me curious about it, even if the animation is mostly okay for the early 1970s. The bad outweighs the good and I give it a thumbs-down.