Banana (2010) poster
2010 · animation · family · comedy

Banana

Directed by Kyle Balda, Samuel Tourneux4m2010
ElsewhereIMDb7.34k
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • intimate
  • funny
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The Minions fight over a delicious banana... but is that all they want?!

Our read · Banana (2010) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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What watching it is actually like.

You want four minutes of pure Minions banana-slapstick chaos and nothing else.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 1/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou expect plot, characters or a feature-length story.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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