“Wendell & Wild” Movie Review

 

“Wendell & Wild”

Movie Review

Wendell & Wild, is an American stop-motion horror comedy film directed by Henry Selik from a screenplay by Selik himself with Jordan Peele, based on the unpublished book of the same name by Selik and Clay McLeod Chapman. It stars Keegan-Michael Key as Wendell and Peele as Wild both are the titular characters with Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross, James Hong and Ving Rhames in supporting roles.  Wendell & Wilde is a strange, funny and very charming movie.

The story of the film revolves around two threads that are destined to collide. In one, Kate, played by Lyric Ross, is a 13-year-old black girl orphaned in a car accident years ago and forced by circumstances to return to her hometown of Rust Bank. Times get tough in foster care and juvenile correctional facilities, Kate gets a chance for a fresh start at a new Catholic private school that needs funding by hosting her, and finds Rust Bank on the brink of foreclosure by the sinister Clax Corporation. Another takes place in the underworld, where two ghosts of questionable intelligence, Wendell and Wild, run into trouble with their powerful father, Buffalo Belzer, played by Ving Rhames. When a giant monster carrying an "amusement" park for lost souls in its belly discovers that his children want to build a fair for themselves, they are charged with treason and sentenced to work with full head of hair. Around the same time, the three main characters discover something special about Kate. She's called the Hell Maiden, and Wendell and Wild are basically her personal demons. As she adjusts to her new life, the two set their sights on her as their ticket out of servitude, and into the land of the living.

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