The
Unbeatables
**
Dir: Juan José Campanella. With the voices of:
Rupert Grint, Peter Serafinowicz, Anthony Head. 97 mins. Cert: U.
By 2018, everybody
will have completed at least one CG animation: your mum, the postie, Eighties
funnyman Duncan Norvelle. This dubbed timewaster seems an unlikely way for Juan
José Campanella to follow his Oscar-winning The Secret in Their Eyes, though it’s almost as tangled: a gentrification
parable – with sentient table footballers rallying a developer-threatened
community – which betrays a marked uncertainty over how best to integrate its
human and toy stories. Ping-ponging camera moves temporarily distract from the
haphazard structuring and translation, and there’s one smart line, care of a
shady agent who insists “Trust me – I’ve worked at FIFA”. The rest is decidedly
midtable.
The Unbeatables is now playing in Irish and Scottish cinemas, ahead of its full UK release this Friday.
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