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movie review - Luca

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is an unassuming animated movie about a mer-boy/reptile who becomes interested in the humans in a nearby village - which is in sunny rural Italy. His entre to this world occurs because he meets another mer-boy who lives full time in an abandoned lighthouse. As a note, one should always take new directions based on encounters with people who live alone in an abandoned lighthouse.

Anyway, from there plot rather washes over you like the warm gentle waves of the Mediterranean. Sea-monster boys meet girl, enter a triathlon of sorts to show the bullies who's boss(es), and sea-monster boys have a falling out and then the climax. This is suitable for 'movie night' with the kids. It must be, according to the a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_(2021_film)">Wikipedia page, this was the most-streamed movie of 2021!

Recommended.