My Life As A Zucchini (2016) --- Ma vie de Courgette (original title
PG-13
l hour 6 minutes

Watched on Netflix 10/20/2017








This film was one of the nominees for 2017 Oscar for animated films (Zootopia won). While this a sweet story with a very happy conclusion, it is not for younger children. However with adult supervision, this film could teach young children important life lessons. The first few moments of this movie are quite dark. The reasons that the children are in foster care is also realistic and not sugar-coated.  The stop-motion animation is bright, involving and with more details than can be absorbed.  The soundtrack is very French and goes well with the animation style. The movie moves slowly, but is not boring. The French spoken is basic, but the English subtitles are helpful. It even renewed some of my high school French vocabulary skills.  This movie portrays life with a happy ending without eliminating the different routes many of us take.  Stay for the closing credits, about half way in is an imaginative bonus scene which was funny and still poignant.