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Boys Go to Jupiter Reviews
Cheers to Glander for marching to his own beat, but for me – a Gen-Xer who just ain’t feeling it – Boys Go to Jupiter is a near-miss.
A kinder, gentler South Park of sorts...
When I laughed (and I laughed a lot), it was sometimes at the jokes, sometimes at the architecture, and sometimes at just how starkly Glander highlights the waking-nightmare landscapes so many American children are trying to survive.
It’s not a great film, but it’s not a bad film either. See it if you’re in the mood for something different, just don’t expect all of it to make sense.
Its imaginative ambiance has an undeniable allure, and it’ll undoubtedly be something of a calling card for Glander's brand of animation, but ultimately it's little more than just pleasant viewing.
Boys Go To Jupiter is joyous and colorful, and made me miss a place I used to hate. The movie gets Florida right, but in a really nice way.
There has to be more to insightful absurdity than having an alien food influencer singing a review of to-go spaghetti.
It’s hardly the first film to depict that nebulous, confusing, and sometimes scary period betwixt teenhood and adulthood. But it feels fresh in so many ways. This one has sleeper classic written all over it.
Utilizing an animation style that’s a cross between the ‘60s television cartoon “Davey and Goliath” and the modern “South Park,” it is what some might call “surreal.” That’s a polite way of saying it’s an incoherent mess.
“Boys Go to Jupiter” is one of the most charming, affecting and utterly singular animated films of the year.
Writer/director/producer/animator Julian Glander has clearly done all kinds of research to make something feel as cohesive as this, while also doing what’s needed to nurture this bizarre story so that it can deliver with maximum efficiency.
It’s like a Jim Jarmusch movie for little kids.
Admirably strange... [but] dampened by the layer of Sundance-approved quirk that shellacs the final product. What remains is begrudging admiration and a respect for the film’s form.
A parody of gig economy hustle culture, featuring a combination of humans, aliens, and other creatures, as well as the voices of a long list of respected actors and alt-comedians
Stepping back from the canvas to take in the entirety of “Boys Go to Jupiter” results in something just as unusual as when viewed close-up, but nonetheless worthy of a trip into the world Glander has built. It’s surreal, sure. It’s also fascinating.
In the end, “Boys Go to Jupiter“ may not fully stick the landing, but it’s a bold, vibrant, and unmistakably personal work of animated cinema. It won’t be for everyone, but like any great piece of outsider art, it doesn’t try to be.
It could be more adventurous, but what Boys Go to Juper lacks in teeth it makes up for with heart—and that’s just fine for a cultural moment when everything outside the movies has audiences going fangs out.
This is a goofy, amusing, and colorful exercise that visually recalls Gumby creator Art Clokey’s stop animations, though it was actually made using the same software program that birthed last year’s very different-looking Oscar winning Flow.
An ASMR escape from the here and now swathed in Trapper Keeper colors and a Y2K soundscape, writer-director Julian Glander’s animated fantasia Boys Go To Jupiter is a sweet fable about the gig economy that somehow manages to never stumble into despair
Adult Swim animator writer/director Julian Glander makes his feature debut with the free open-source 3D modeling program Blender and has created a trippy coming of age story that looks like the SIMs were given Lego heads and abandoned in Florida.