The animation is actually pretty great. There are some things that the animator obviously slacked on, like the blinking. But it's usually very well shot, and very well animated. Impressive at times. You can tell a lot of work and love went into this.
The story is simplistic as it should be with this sort of thing. It takes some time to get used to, but once you realized you shouldn't take this too seriously and stop thinking so hard, the story gets a lot more fun.
There are some cringy humor moments but also a lot of moments that made me genuinely laugh.
What I really disliked, and scored down the most for was the complete and utter lack of expression from each bean. All their faces look the same. So you have nothing but their voices to convey emotions, feelings, reactions, everything. And the voice acting ranges from bad to decent. Which makes the movie suffer when all you have to connect to is a voice.
Also, all the beans look exactly the same, save for their clothing. Kudos to the character designer the everything for this movie, for putting a lot of thought in the design and making the look of each character convey a lot of what their expression leaves out. But it's limited. It can't replace facial expression. It should be working alongside it.
Also, the sound design was fantastic. Unexpectedly so.
Edit: the dialogue is... usually terrible. There are some nice moments. But its usually the worse. The reverse could be said a the music. Its usually really great and fitting. But sometimes its really out of place.
The story is simplistic as it should be with this sort of thing. It takes some time to get used to, but once you realized you shouldn't take this too seriously and stop thinking so hard, the story gets a lot more fun.
There are some cringy humor moments but also a lot of moments that made me genuinely laugh.
What I really disliked, and scored down the most for was the complete and utter lack of expression from each bean. All their faces look the same. So you have nothing but their voices to convey emotions, feelings, reactions, everything. And the voice acting ranges from bad to decent. Which makes the movie suffer when all you have to connect to is a voice.
Also, all the beans look exactly the same, save for their clothing. Kudos to the character designer the everything for this movie, for putting a lot of thought in the design and making the look of each character convey a lot of what their expression leaves out. But it's limited. It can't replace facial expression. It should be working alongside it.
Also, the sound design was fantastic. Unexpectedly so.
Edit: the dialogue is... usually terrible. There are some nice moments. But its usually the worse. The reverse could be said a the music. Its usually really great and fitting. But sometimes its really out of place.