Letterboxd Review: La Leyenda de la Llorona

Letterboxd Review: La Leyenda de la Llorona - 2011

Story - Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night in this subtitled, Spanish-language animated adventure.
Cast - Yair Prado, Mónica del Carmen, Rafael Inclán, Andrés Couturier
Crew - Alberto Rodríguez (Director/Writer), Ricardo Arnais (Writer), Omar Mustre (Writer), Jesús Gumán (Writer)
Runtime - 81 minutes

I’ve not been really a big fan of the franchise, but this one is perhaps the best of all the movies related to Leyendas.

It uses the most popular tale of La Llorona as a base, it works as a kid's movie and it is very entertaining (various physical gags and comedy). I wish it wasn’t so A and B plot, they often do that in these stories where one is more serious and the other is just comedy and absurd, it gives the movie a lack of focus and tonal shift.

The animation, compared to the first movie is vastly improved, I haven’t seen them first in many years but I’ve tried and that’s the aspect I hate the most. In this installment, the designs are more consistent, detailed and the animation is more fluid, the 3D objects are not as distracting as they once were.

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