The saga is slightly too convoluted with some world-building short-changed, but it twists and turns to a place of genuine emotion and a rousing call to take down the ghouls of the real world rather than the demons of the underworld. It's brimming with eerie imagery, silly gags, and gross-out moments where bugs erupt from orifices. Wendell & Wild, which will be released this October via Netflix, is Selick's first feature film in 13 years, and there's a sense he wanted to pack as much as possible into the 105 minutes he had. Selick, along with co-writer and producer Jordan Peele, sends her on a spooky, zany, socially relevant adventure that might be overstuffed but is a treat nonetheless. Kat is a 13-year-old Black girl with trauma in her past, green hair, and a pair of kick-ass combat boots. Stop-motion animator Henry Selick has offered up a new goth heroine for three successive generations now: Gen X had Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, millennials got the titular Coraline of Coraline, and now Gen Z has Kat from Wendell & Wild, his latest film which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend.
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