Everest - A Yeti aims high
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Everest - A Yeti aims high |
| Original title | Abominable |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jill Culton |
| script | Jill Culton |
| production | Suzanne Buirgy |
| music | Rupert Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Robert Edward Crawford |
| cut | Susan Fitzer |
| occupation | |
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Everest - A Yeti is aiming high (original title: Abominable ) is a computer-animated film from DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio from the year 2019. It is about a group of young people who a young Yeti help return to the Himalayas.
action
After the death of her father, teenager Yi lives with her mother and grandmother "Nai Nai" in Shanghai. She has distanced herself from her family and friends, such as the cheerful Peng and his superficial cousin Jin. She fills all of her free time with jobs to raise money for a trip to all the places her father wanted to visit with her.
One day, a young yeti escapes from a security facility owned by the wealthy businessman Burnish who captured him to prove the existence of these mythical creatures to the world. He escapes to the roof of Yi's apartment block, where she has set up a retreat. At night she comes up to play the violin and discovers the creature. When a search party flies by in a helicopter, Yi hides the Yeti. The next day she brings him Baozi and heals his arm wound. She calls him Everest because she realizes that he wants to go back there.
Jin and Peng go to the roof to see if everything is going well. At that moment the helicopter reappears and Everest flees with Yi on his back over the roofs to the Oriental Pearl Tower . Jin and Peng follow them on a scooter. At the port she sends Everest away on a ship, but jumps on board with a brief hesitation. Peng and Jin follow her too. In a port on Lake Qiandao , they travel on in a truck. Eventually, the cargo they were hiding in falls from the loading area into the forest. There Everest uses its magical powers to grow blueberries in order to satisfy its hunger.
Meanwhile, Burnish and zoologist Dr. Zara continues the chase. In Huang Shan Mountains they find the children. Everest lets a dandelion grow until it reaches gigantic proportions. He, Yi and Peng cling to the stem and let the wind carry them. Jin is captured by Burnish. Zara convinces Jin that as a zoologist, the wellbeing of the yeti and the children is important to her. He tells her where to find her next. During the night, however, Jin learns that Zara is planning to deceive Burnish and sell the Yeti. Thereupon he struggles through the jungle alone to reach his friends beforehand.
Yi, Peng and Everest reach the Gobi Desert and continue on foot. Burnish catches up with them in a small town on the Yellow River . Jin shows up with a boat just in time and they escape with the help of Everest's forces, who create a gigantic wave from a field of flowers, on which they surf with the boat. On the landing, however, Yi's violin, her most precious memory of her father, breaks. Everest repairs them by replacing the strings with his hair. They reach the Buddha of Leshan , where Yi realizes that Everest purposely led her to all the places she wanted to visit. On the statue, Yi plays on her violin, which thanks to the yeti hair now also has magical powers and makes flowers grow.
At the foot of the Himalayas they are surrounded by Burnish's people on a bridge. Everest summons a storm to protect the children. Burnish realizes the yetis need protection and wants to call his people back. Zara, however, shoots him with a tranquilizer and takes Everest prisoner. In a fight, she pushes Yi off the bridge. The squad leaves with Jin and Peng. Yi did not fall into the abyss, however, but hangs on a rope under the bridge. She climbs up and plays her magical violin. This gives Everest new strength and he breaks out of the cage. With control over the ice and snow, he stops the column and frees Jin and Peng. Desperately, Dr. Zara to run over Everest. She creates an avalanche that brings her and the leader of Burnish's men down. Everest summons clouds that bring the four up the mountain. There he meets his family again. They say goodbye, and the kids get back down the same path Burnish takes them home.
At home, Yi spends more time with her family. Jin and Peng visit for dinner, where they receive a package from Burnish of mountaineering equipment.
production
The film has been in production at DreamWorks Animation since 2010 under the title Everest with Jill Culton as director and screenwriter. In 2016 she left the project and Tim Johnson and Todd Wilderman took over their duties. In February 2018, Culton returned to replace Johnson. Wilderman continued to work as a co-director.
In May 2018 the title was changed to Abominable .
synchronization
The German synchronization was done by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron under the direction and based on the dialogue book by Nana Spier .
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Yi | Chloe Bennet | Nilam Farooq |
| Bang | Albert Tsai | Moritz Huebscher |
| Jin | Tenzing Norgay Trainor | Julien Bam |
| Everest | Joseph Izzo | |
| Burnish | Eddie Izzard | Bodo Wolf |
| Dr. Zara | Sarah Paulson | |
| Nai Nai | Tsai Chin | Marianne Gross |
| Yi's mother | Michelle Wong | Nana Spier |
publication
The film had its world premiere on September 7, 2019 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It was published in Germany on September 26, 2019, in the USA on September 27, and in China on September 28.
reception
At the box office, the film grossed $ 60.7 million in the US and ranks second in China with $ 17.8 million. In Germany, the film grossed 4.6 million US dollars in cinemas. Worldwide revenues are $ 184 million, which is roughly 2.5 times the manufacturing budget of $ 75 million. In home theaters, the film grossed $ 16 million worldwide.
Because of the portrayal of the controversial " nine-dash line ", the film aroused criticism in some countries involved in the territorial conflicts in the China Sea . On October 14, 2019, the film was banned in Vietnam. Philippine Foreign Minister Teodoro Locsin junior suggested cutting out the scene, but Universal refused. The film was also banned in the Philippines and Malaysia.
Awards
African-American Film Critics Association 2019
- AAFCA Award in the Best Animated Feature category
Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2019
- HMMA Award in the Best Original Song - Animated Film category for Beautiful Life
- Nomination in the category Best Original Score - Animated Film for Rupert Gregson-Williams
La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival 2019
- Prix du public for Jill Culton
ReFrame 2020
- ReFrame Stamp in the Top 100 Grossing Narrative & Animated Feature (2019) category for Universal Pictures
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Everest - A Yeti aims high . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Everest - A Yeti aims high . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ 'How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World' To Fly A Week Earlier In February. In: Deadline. September 27, 2018, accessed April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Oriental Dreamworks Relaunches As 100% Chinese-Owned Pearl Studio. In: Cartoon Brew. February 2, 2018, accessed April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ DreamWorks-Pearl Studio Animated Movie 'Everest' Retitled 'Abominable'. In: Variety. May 18, 2018, accessed April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Everest - A Yeti aims high in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Abominable (2019). In: The Numbers. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ DreamWorks Film 'Abominable' Is Pulled by Vietnam Over Chinese Map Scene. In: New York Times. October 15, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Locsin suggests: Cut 'offending scene' in Abominable movie. In: Business World. October 16, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Abominable film won't be screened in Malaysia over South China Sea map. In: Channel News Asia. October 20, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .