At first, I thought the CGI was off-putting, but after a while, I warmed up to it a bit. The CGI is not terrible, but it does not feel like a Studio Ghibli movie.
As far as the movie itself, I do not understand the point of it. Earwig is manipulative and annoying and Bella Yaga is unlikeable and controlling. The only characters that are halfway decent were the Mandrake and Thomas the cat (mainly because he reminded me of Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service which is by far a better movie than this one). The plot is boring and confusing, and the ending is TERRIBLE. Why would it just end like that when things were actually starting to get somewhat interesting? You finish the movie with having more questions than answers.
As far as the movie itself, I do not understand the point of it. Earwig is manipulative and annoying and Bella Yaga is unlikeable and controlling. The only characters that are halfway decent were the Mandrake and Thomas the cat (mainly because he reminded me of Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service which is by far a better movie than this one). The plot is boring and confusing, and the ending is TERRIBLE. Why would it just end like that when things were actually starting to get somewhat interesting? You finish the movie with having more questions than answers.
