The best thing about The Book of Life is the animation, which is never less than outstanding and even spellbinding at its best, consisting of vivid warm colours, smooth imaginatively done background art and beautifully drawn character designs that look real.
It's not perfect but it is very good not only as an animated film but as a film in general and it is great for children and adults alike.
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One of the best animated films of 2014 along with The Lego Movie and How to Train Your Dragon 2 and much better than the trailer suggested it to be. "Coco" proves you can make a great CGI film with Mexican characters and, more importantly, heart. UPDATE: Since seeing "The Book of LIfe", I saw "Coco" and was simply blown away. It's sad, as I really did want to see a Mexican storyline and it was nice to see so many Latin-American voice actors (though Channing Tatum and Ice Cube seemed like odd additions to the rest of the cast). Not terrible but with such artistry it's hard to imagine the rest of it being so sub-par. Imagine.the film uses some traditional Latin tunes but also had some songs written by Paul Williams ("The Apology Song" was actually quite good I must say), "Do You Think I'm Sexy" (by Rod Stewart) and a very adult tune originally by Radiohead (the song "Creep",-which includes a line about someone being so 'f-ing special', although fortunately the song ended just before this line)! Who chose these tunes?! Overall, the film looked great but otherwise left me very, very flat. There were just too many singing interludes and the range of genres was so broad that it just left me baffled. The story had great parts-but too often the characters were poorly developed, clichéd and one-dimensional. Unfortunately, apart from the artistry, there wasn't a lot I loved about the film. I loved this and felt that the animators and artists were by far the biggest stars of the film and I could see this film being nominated for technical awards because of this. Imagine if you look traditional Mexican articulated wooden sculptures for Day of the Dead and you make many of the characters look like living versions of these statues-that is what most of the characters looked like in this movie. I also really appreciated the character designs. In this sense, "The Book of Life" is clearly a gorgeous film. There also were a few scenes that simply blew me away with the grand look-such as when the film went to the Kingdom of the Dead. After all, there are so many CGI films out these days that it's great to see one that looks so different and bold. When "The Book of Life" began, I was really enthralled by its creative art style.