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- 2016
- Not Rated
- Screen Media Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Screen Media Films
- 1 h 36 m
Summary A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
Directed By: Pedro Morelli
Written By: Matt Hansen, Pedro Morelli
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Screen Media Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Screen Media Films
- 1 h 36 m
Zoom
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5.7
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Summary A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
Directed By: Pedro Morelli
Written By: Matt Hansen, Pedro Morelli
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
55
38% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Mr. Morelli mixes live-action and animated scenes to good effect. He doesn’t have time to give his characters depth, but there’s pleasure in figuring out how they connect and pondering the movie’s modest themes.
Is there a point to all these cheeky meta-shenanigans? Not really. Yet it’s hard not to share Morelli’s delight in the possibilities of an impossible story structure, and if the final work feels inevitably uneven, that’s less a flaw than a feature — a testament to the visual and tonal distinctiveness of the movie’s individual parts.
User Score
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Based on 7 User Ratings
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
5.7
29% Positive
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71% Mixed
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Though Zoom skillfully weaves together animation and live action, I was not stoned when I watched it, and I’m not a fan of plot-plot-plot. So it left me meh.
There's no way for all this to resolve that isn't fairly absurd. But Morelli's light touch generally keeps the goofiness from becoming tiresome, especially given the help of some quirktronica compositions by Kid Koala on the soundtrack.
Director Pedro Morelli's neon-and-grime aesthetic and a solid cast of mostly Canadian character actors (including a campy, animated Don McKellar and a creepy Michael Eklund) are the grounding factors.
There is an interesting film buried in Zoom, and it’s one to seek out if you’re a fan of more daring visual choices in film. It’s just a shame that the script couldn’t have matched the direction and visuals in its intriguing approach to world building.
A rather terrible comedy-satire, bears the DNA of at least two strains of terrible films.
Production Company
Rhombus Media,
O2 Filmes
Release Date Sep 2, 2016
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline Who's writing who?
Website
http://bit.ly/Zoom_VOD
Awards
Directors Guild of Canada
• 2 Nominations
Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 1 Nomination
