"Wendell & Wild" brings together such an appealingly eclectic collection of pieces and parts that it's pretty easy to forgive its convoluted plot and herky-jerky storytelling.
Debuting on Netflix this week, the animated horror-comedy adventure is the first directorial effort from stop-motion master Henry Selick since 2009's highly regarded "Coraline."
It features voice work by the "Key & Peele" comedy duo of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele — the latter evolving to become one of the top directors in the horror genre and co-writer (with Selick) and a producer of "Wendell & Wild" — as the movie's demonic but mostly harmless namesake characters, as well as by "This Is Us" alum Lyric Ross as its young protagonist, Kat Elliot.
