Let the Wonderful Weirdness of 'Boys Go To Jupiter' Wash Over You
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An ASMR escape from the here and now swathed in Trapper Keeper colors and a Y2K soundscape, writer-director Julian Glander’s animated fantasia Boys Go To Jupiter is a sweet fable about the gig economy that somehow manages to never stumble into despair, despite that subject matter’s triggering effect on the very millennials this nostalgia machine was created in a lab for. Featuring an alt-star cast of voices including Julio Torres, Tavi Gevinson, Elsie Fisher, Janeane Garofalo, Sarah Sherman, and Cole Escola, Boys Go To Jupiter is the ambient sound of lapping waves and birdsong in the Ecco the Dolphin video games turned cinema. Inexplicable but also just right.
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