10 Overlooked 2019 Films That You Really Need To See

9. Missing Link

Dragged Across Concrete
Laika

When your cast includes Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, Zoe Saldana and Emma Thompson - you were pretty much counting on this sweeping up at the box office, right?

Wrong.

Missing Link made $24.7 million worldwide and with a $100 million budget, 'flop' doesn't quite cover the damage this film may have done to stop-motion animation studio, Laika.

It's a damn shame, too!

Chris Butler's brainchild combined dry, witty humour with the beautiful aesthetics that are consistently churned out by Laika (Kubo and the Two Strings and Coraline being another two stand-outs) and - in theory - had a family-friendly tonic on their hands.

Whether the films mature approach to the source material - many of the jokes rely on sharp delivery rather than slapstick visual humour - or the fact that the film simply wasn't marketed well enough to excite parents into dragging their kids into theatres, it was obvious that something didn't exactly click with the paying public.

If you want to giggle at a Sasquatch (Galifianakis) trying to find his place in the world or a hopeless bounty hunter (Timothy Olyphant) being foiled at every turn to take out Sir Lionel Frost (Jackman), himself aiding the Yeti-cousin for his own questionable justifications, then this film is worth a punt.

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