Kubo and the two strings: 8.5/10.
Amazingly well made, don't forget the watch the documentary in the extras, 10/10 material. Laika is my favorite studio after Ghibli, with Coraline, Paranorman, Boxtrolls and now Kubo, they keep improving on the art and scale. I hope they can hit the same story impact as Spirited away or Mononoke some time. Kubo proves they can already match the detail and scale. The story lacks a bit behind the visuals in its predictability and familiarity, even though the setting is very well chosen.
Even with all the rigging, the fight against the 18ft skeleton took on average an hour per frame to shoot.
I'm going to watch it again tomorrow. Stop motion has the extra level of detail that cgi alone simply can not achieve. This is one of those movies that could get me into 4K to really see all the textures. It was shot in 3D though, probably not with 4K cameras. No info on imdb available, yet with the heavy mix with CGI I'm pretty certain it will have been mastered in 2K.
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