After seeing a couple of the directors other movies I knew better than to expect too much from this one. But I have to say that it exceeded my expectations by far. Not in a good sense though. Basically it's very pretentious in it's symbolism (lots of puppy-love and talking birds(!?)) and actually rather meaningless, despite its over-obvious attempt to make the usual points that children are fragile and that it's better to be nice than to fight. Not to mention all the inconsistencies where for example one day the entire family are packing in a hurry not to miss the plane to Sweden, only to see Zozo enter the plane two or three days later on (I seriously doubt they had open tickets, and if they had, why the rush earlier on). So, most of the time I just wanted it to end (at some times my mind even wandered into thinking what if he hadn't stepped out for water in the beginning). But when it actually did I couldn't believe how abrupt and plain goofy the ending scene felt. And to think I missed Species II on TV for this;-)
Review of Zozo
