Somehow, the marriage of two singular film talents has produced the least special work either has ever done.
Streaming on Netflix Friday, the stop-motion animated feature “Wendell & Wild” comes from Jordan Peele, of “Get Out,” “Us” and “Nope,” and Henry Selick, whose “Coraline” is one of the most intriguing and fully realized animated movies of our century. Peele and Selick wrote the script of “Wendell & Wild” and Selick directed. (He also directed the movie everybody assumes Tim Burton directed, “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”)
This one’s considerably grimmer. Also occasionally trenchant. And persistently overplotted, in ways that knock heads with its simple, tragic starting point.
