I like Evil Lies Adults Tell Children quite a bit; it's visually engaging, has a wacky set-up, and an emphasis on simplifying complex ideas for younger audiences.
The story follows a group of otherworldly life forms that make up one entity seek to dispel myths and mistruths.
This is a hybrid puppet / animation / live-action web-series where otherworldly forms make up one entity and offer advice to children to dispel myths and mistruths, addressing things such as car culture, wealth, privacy, college, grieving, paying rent, devotion to careers, birthday parties, and ageism.
It's not revolutionary or especially surprising, but it gets to where it needs to go quickly.
The animation is kind of fascinating; it has the texture of stop motion and there's some bits of special effects. The characters speak and move with the smoothness of 21st century animation. They appear as a mish-mash of shapes and colors that make up a face-like creature. Each character has distinctive traits, but there's little progression for any of them. They learn things, but it's primarily to teach the audience. My favorite part is the animation.
The film's message is to never be afraid to ask questions; the thirst for knowledge should never be fully quenched.
I give Evil Lies Adults Tell Children 4 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 8 to 18, plus adults. It's silly, imaginative and informative. By Benjamin P., KIDS FIRST!
I like Evil Lies Adults Tell Children quite a bit; it's visually engaging, has a wacky set-up, and an emphasis on simplifying complex ideas for younger audiences.
The story follows a group of otherworldly life forms that make up one entity seek to dispel myths and mistruths.
This is a hybrid puppet / animation / live-action web-series where otherworldly forms make up one entity and offer advice to children to dispel myths and mistruths, addressing things such as car culture, wealth, privacy, college, grieving, paying rent, devotion to careers, birthday parties, and ageism.
It's not revolutionary or especially surprising, but it gets to where it needs to go quickly.
The animation is kind of fascinating; it has the texture of stop motion and there's some bits of special effects. The characters speak and move with the smoothness of 21st century animation. They appear as a mish-mash of shapes and colors that make up a face-like creature. Each character has distinctive traits, but there's little progression for any of them. They learn things, but it's primarily to teach the audience. My favorite part is the animation.
The film's message is to never be afraid to ask questions; the thirst for knowledge should never be fully quenched.
I give Evil Lies Adults Tell Children 4 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 8 to 18, plus adults. It's silly, imaginative and informative. By Benjamin P., KIDS FIRST!
Evil Lies Adults Tell Children is a hybrid puppet/cartoon web series where an alien with a multi-sentient body (and no concept of gender) offers advice to those other newbies of Earth culture: children. Our alien host(s), known as the Great Abnoxion, is a biologically connected lineage-a six membered family that all share one body. Armed with this unique familial perspective and a technology that can trap and interrogate Evil Lies, the Abnoxion goes after some famous falsities adults tell children, such as: You Are Special, It's Rude to Ask Questions About Money, and You'll Find Out When You're Older. Serving hot alien, sci-fi takes on things like car culture, wealth privacy, the importance of college, toxic positivity in grieving, paying rent, devotion to careers, birthday parties, and ageism.
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