A Whisker Away

Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 18, 2020

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Ratings

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GoobisJul 8, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If I had to describe A Whisker Away I would call it Poorly written but nice to look at. Muge, the main character, is insufferable either complaining or being unhealthily obsessed over the male character. Although they explain their reasoning for her actions it's ultimately pretty weak and doesn't justify the movies romantic interpretation of downright harassment and stalkerish behaviors. The movie uses her abuse an abandonment as an excuse for her creepy actions rather than actually take the time to explore how her abuse and abandonment affects her and makes her unable to connect to people. It is more interested in writing a shallow love story than explore it's female lead.The movie struggles to find a consistent tone, plays off a fight between the two moms where they discuss how they've been bad parents for laughs, when it should be a serious scene. It takes many elements from other ,much better, anime movies such as Your Name, A Silent Voice and Spirited Away and jams them into this movie giving it essentially nothing original and leaving it with no positive identity. Also, muge is never called out for basically stalking the male. When he finds out that muge is actually the cat he has very little reaction and moves on quickly not recognizing how creepy her actions are. The movie decides that the male character should find muge's actions endearing despite the fact he shows no enjoyment towards her actions at all, which makes him be the one to change rather than muge. The movie adds "cat world" and introduces around five new characters with 30 minutes left in the movie completely rushing through the end. It is completely out of place and seems like they saw Spirited Away and just put it in their without understanding what makes Spirited Away special. The new characters serve the purpose of slowing down the main villain and that's basically it. They slow him down when muge first meets them then around ten minutes later get a big reveal to slow down the villain again.

The movie has no idea what tone it is going for and is is just completely outshined by other movies. You want a fish out of water story where the main character explores a new world watch Spirited Away. You want a story dealing with the dangers of depression and bullying watch A Silent Voice. You want a well animated love story watch Your Name. If you want a tonally inconsistent story following an unlikeable main character and her unhealthy obsession with stolen ideas from other movies and a pretend deep, but ultimately shallow story watch A Whisker Away. The movie reads more like self insert fanfiction rather than a professionally made movie. The world changes around the character rather than the character herself having any real substantial change. The only change she does go through is I can't date my crush if I'm a cat. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time watching this movie.… Expand

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MotoritzFeb 7, 2022

Don't try to be Studio Ghibli when you aren't Studio Ghibli. As a whole movie it just felt way to bizarre to be enjoyable.

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mondamondamondaJun 17, 2023

This movie is **** **** Esta pelicula no vale monda si tienen un amigo que anda con las mariqueras de recomendar esto mata ese hpta -20This movie is **** **** Esta pelicula no vale monda si tienen un amigo que anda con las mariqueras de recomendar esto mata ese hpta -20 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ… Expand

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