It’s the age-old question asked by many an animated adventure: how far would you go for somebody you love? Labyrinth answered that question with a twisty, sweeping fairy tale. Finding Nemo turned that hypothetical into an aquatic odyssey. And Wildwood, the latest from stop-motion studio LAIKA, builds a jaw-dropping fantasy epic on that same foundation.
When the 14-year-old Prue (voiced by Peyton Elizabeth Lee) witnesses a murder of crows abduct her baby brother and carry him into the Impassable Wilderness — a realm that Portland locals believe is teeming with magic — she drops everything to save him, stumbling into an ancient conflict between the factions that dwell there.