The two human leads in The Larva Island Movie — Chuck and Grace — are a man who's just returned from a deserted island and a reporter who wants to share his story with her readers. (Caldecott, anyone?) But are they this animated film's most appealing characters? How about his cohabitants on the island, Red and Yellow; this pair of babbling grubs eats hallucinogenic mushrooms, farts, burps, dances, and steals candy while making preposterously silly noises. Plus, the title's about them, not the people, right?
With tongues that serve as peg-legs, eye-visors, climbing-tools, spear-holders, and choreographic enhancers, these two bug buddies aren't your everyday larvae. What did you expect? This is a cartoon to its core. As Chuck puts it, "Turns out bugs are just like really slimy people." Do we believe him? Grace, for her part, is pretty skeptical. And his tale gets even harder to accept when he mentions the singing seal named Clara, the alien who transforms the local crab into a mini-transformer-toolkit, and a tornado with an actual eye at its center. Would anyone buy the hokum of Chuck and Yellow swapping consciousness during a lightning storm? Whether Grace does or not, she's more or less entertained... as are the maitre'd, his daughter, a chef, and one grandmotherly patron. And perhaps you. As for me? I admit, kinda.
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