Trouble (2019) poster
2019 · animation · adventure · family · comedy

Trouble

Directed by Kevin Johnson1h 28m2019
ElsewhereIMDb5.84kRT50%
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A pampered dog named Trouble must learn to live in the real world while trying to escape from his former owner's greedy children and must learn how to survive on the big-city streets.

Our read · Trouble (2019) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · adventure · family 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 simple sweet animated tale of a spoiled dog learning street smarts.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 1/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou expect high-end animation or sophisticated storytelling.

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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