Film Review – Nimona

“Nimona” hasn’t enjoyed an easy production process, with its journey to the screen disrupted by the shuttering of Blue Sky Studios (its original home) and the reluctance of the Walt Disney Corporation when it came time to complete the project. The effort’s been in some state of animation for the last six years, but directors Nick Bruno and Troy Quane (“Spies in Disguise”) finally bring the picture to the finish line, and they do well with this adaptation of a 2015 ND Stevenson graphic novel, which explores the strange relationship between an aspiring knight and the shapeshifting monster that desires to be his sidekick. “Nimona” has style and sensitivity, doing well when developing the central partnership and all the challenges of law and order it encounters. The screenplay (by Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor) runs into some difficulty trying to transform Stevenson’s original material into something more family friendly, and formula is followed, but the film remains a compelling study of identity and fantasy. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com