May the 12th Be with You (2024) poster
2024 · animation · comedy · sci-fi · adventure

May the 12th Be with You

Directed by David Silverman5m2024
ElsewhereIMDb4.6786
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • intimate
  • funny
Movie DNA

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

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It's Mother's Day and Marge Simpson joins the moms of Disney+ on a special holiday outing that turns into an epic galactic adventure filled with heroes, villains, and Stewie from Family Guy.

Our read · May the 12th Be with You (2024) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · sci-fi 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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You want a five-minute silly galactic Mother's Day adventure with Simpsons and Stewie.

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

Skip it tonightYou expect a substantial story or hate cartoon crossovers.

If May the 12th Be with You is your film
Plusaversary (2021)
short Simpsons meets Disney+ parody
(want any plot depth)
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Simpsons family in absurd big adventure
(prefer ultra short format)
Family Guy: Blue Harvest (2007)
crossover parody with Star Wars gags
(not a Family Guy fan)
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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