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TUT (AND RUN): Knutsen (right) and Ludvigsen in “Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The great beast.” Photo: Norwegian film distribution
Juba. And juba again!
ANIMATION / CHILDREN’S FILMS
“Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The great beast”
Norway. Allowed for everyone. Directed by: Rune Spaans and Gunhild Enger
Voices: John Brungot, Hermann Sabado, Per Inge Torkelsen, Heidi Goldmann, Anne Grete Preus and others.
The second animated film to emerge from Knutsen & Ludvigsen- «universe» comes relatively shortly after the first («Knutsen & Ludvigsen and the horrible Rasputin», 2015), but it has had a long way from the bottom of «Knutsens» ( Øystein Dolmen) desk drawer.
The “debut” was viewed by up to 250,000. In the fall of 2020, it will be well done for “Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The Great Beast” to accomplish something similar. But the movie is at least that good. Maybe chopped better?
BIG AND CUTE ANIMAL: Scene from «Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The big animal». Photo: Norwegian film distribution
The story is as loose as it seems, and at the same time it calls itself a movie. Our two toy cups live in the tunnel with their badger, where they are a little eager to be visited by the “big animal” of the title: a pink worm with at least 14 feet to run and a hundred heads to eat.
However, it is not the animal they should fear. One day, a train conductor arrives at the access space of the tunnel. She claims to be a representative of the authorities, but actually works on behalf of her older sister Gudrun (voiced by the late Anne Grete Preus).
HUMAN BEINGS! NOT COMPLETELY RELIABLE: The villain Gudrun (left) and her sister the train conductor in “Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The Great Beast.” Photo: Norwegian film distribution
Authorities and authorities: ice, this really is not something for our two heroes! It turns out that Gudrun is searching for the Backpack Stone, a magical treasure that Knutsen’s grandfather, Captain Knutsen (once Gunhild’s ‘love bass’) left behind. Captain Knutsen is dead. “This is good news,” says Ludvigsen. “Then we will know where to find it!”
Exactly what Gunhild wants with Backpack Stone will never be very clear. But she’s not that careful either. What counts is what happens along the way.
HOLD THE HAT !: Scene from «Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The great animal». Captain Knutsen on the left. Photo: Norwegian film distribution
That is so weird. Among other things, that Knutsen & Ludvigsen have to go to heaven, row in a cloud and knock down Captain Knutsen, and that they “trip” properly in some very sugary liquorice jars. Yes, and then they carry some carts along the way, of course.
The discomfort became a wake-up call
What the predecessor received from criticism was largely that it was very little music in “Knutsen & Ludvigsen and the horrible Rasputin.” Actually, the same can be objected to this. In addition, it can be said that the relatively few songs that we listen to are very well integrated into what is happening.
THE PROUD CAPTAIN: Per Inge Torkelsen voices Captain Knutsen in “Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The Great Beast.” Photo: Norwegian film distribution
If you choose to consider “Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The Great Beast” as a “jukebox musical”, well then maybe you should consider not doing it.
Seen as an extension and / or continuation of the K&L mythology, on the other hand, it must be said that “The Great Beast” succeeds. It’s a universe where real nonsense has the highest intrinsic value, and where the people who tell you what to do, whether they are government officials, religious figures, or educators, have a correspondingly low star.
PSYCHODELIC, MAN !: Ludvigsen only in “Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The Great Beast”. Photo: Norwegian film distribution
“Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The Great Beast” is a tangible psychedelic animated film, and not just in the crisp, nice colors, and the journey sequence. It vaporizes anarchy and soft counterculture, targets “acceptable morals” and has much more in common with “Yellow Submarine” (1968) than with the latest Disney novel (although it does refer to “Dumbo – The Flying Elephant” from 1941 ). Margrethe Munthe would find little to be happy about.
Visually, the film is as inventive as its predecessor, full of nods to music videos, classic imagery, and video games. In a sequence of bravery, the drawings gradually become “worse”: “Oh no!” Knutsen shouts: “We have become artistic animation! We look like a Christmas present from Steinerskolen! ».
OF COURSE THE NORTH POLE IS FULL OF ICE TURNS: Scene from “Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The Great Beast.” Photo: Norwegian film distribution
The benefits last until the legends, which are packed with interpretations of “the great beast” signed by both children and adults. And precisely: this is, of course, a children’s movie. But it is a movie for children that the newcomers will also love.
Animated movies tend to be simplified stuff: they go through the herbal test groups before they hit production, packed with educational points and “acceptable morale.” “Knutsen & Ludvigsen 2 – The Great Beast” is the opposite of all that, and it feels good that something so sloppy could hit theaters in 2020.
Dirty? Oh yeah! But in one creative conduct. We are happy to take another.
