Our hopes for Stitch Head…
We were very much hoping that Stitch Head would be an expose of the celebrity face lift industry and of those female celebrities who have had their face lifted so many times they now have a goatee beard. So frequent are the facelifts that the surgeons have had to resort to using a giant bulldog clip on the back of the celeb’s head. But Stitch Head (Asa Butterfield) here is a patchwork of parts created by a mad scientist who loses interest in his creations almost as soon as he’s bought them to life. Think Simon Cowell and you get the idea. Stitch Head is the professor’s very first creation now cast aside and relegated to looking after future cast aside creations and takes them under his wing deprogramming them from their natural monstrousness and instead caring for them as they cower in the castle afraid of the people outside and comforted with bedside stories that Stitch Head reads them each night. The latest creation to join them is Creature (Joel Fry) a furry, one eyed, three armed monster but the pair will soon forge a bond of friendship.
Stitch Head and his dream…
It’s a passing circus sideshow and its owner Fulbert Freakfinder (the clue is in the name) who stumbles across Stitch Head seeing him as a useful lifeline for his ailing business and lures him into joining his troupe. With his promise that audiences will love him what he really means is audiences will turn away in revulsion, a idea nurtured from the TV appearances of Meghan Markle. But the attention Stitch Head has craved is merely exploitation with the villagers terrified of his appearance, all that is but for a small girl Arabella who embraces his differences. And it’s she, along with Creature who helps him escape the clutches of the circus.
Sew….ur …So?
Based on Guy Bass’ graphic novel of the same name this has been adapted and directed by Steve Hudson in what is a spin on the classic Frankenstein story. The animation is very good, the character design is excellent and its theme of acceptance and not being afraid to just be yourself is as valuable to children today as it ever was. Don’t be afraid to take the kids, they’ll love it!
related feature : ‘Making Monsters’ – Author Marshall Julius takes us behind the scenes of movie monsters
related feature : Asa Butterfield & Cora Kirk at the, ‘Your Christmas or Mine 2’ premiere
Here’s the Stitch Head trailer…….
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