Lino - O Filme: Uma Aventura de Sete Vidas

Lino - O Filme: Uma Aventura de Sete Vidas (lit. Lino - The Movie: An Adventure of Seven Lives or Lino - The Movie: A Seven-Life Adventure) is a 2017 Brazilian animated film produced by StartAnima Studio and directed by Rafael Ribas. Its main cast is Selton Mello, Paolla Oliveira and Dira Paes. It debuted on September 7, 2017, the day it is celebrated the Independence of Brazil.

Plot
Lino works as an entertainer at children's parties, but he can't stand the way children treat him, making fun of him because he works in a cat's costume. Determined to change his life, he visits a wizard, but the magic doesn't work in the right way, and he wakes up as a big cat.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The protagonist, Lino, is likeable and relatable.
 * 2) The story works very well.
 * 3) The computer animation is very expressive and detailed, also it is one of Brazil's best, being on par with Blue Sky Studios, Pixar and DreamWorks Animation.
 * 4) Good voice acting from Selton Mello, Paolla Oliveira, and Dira Paes.
 * 5) Well composed music.
 * 6) Good morals, such as always think positive, love what you have, who you are and what you do and, above all, never lose hope.
 * 7) The jokes, when not being toilet humor, are very funny.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The movie don't know if it's set on Brazil or on the United States, as there's Portuguese and English texts and references all over the place.
 * 2) Some of the jokes consist of toilet humor.
 * 3) Some characters, such as the two bumbling cops and the little girl are quite useless.
 * 4) * The little girl added in sort of feels like taken out of Monsters, Inc.

Reception
Lino - The Movie: An Adventure of Seven Lives had a favorable critical note on the part of the specialized critic. On the AdoroCinema website, the film has a rating of 3 stars out of five, and a consensus of "Legal", the critic Bruno Camelo gave a positive rating to the film and described it as: "Lino is unlucky. If he were a character in a cartoon from the 1980s, he would have a little cloud over his head, raining only on him. As it is part of the 21st century, Lino has no friends, accumulates debts and does a thankless job: he animates children's parties, suffering abuse from hyperactive children and receiving an insufficient salary. Until the day when a wrong magic ties the boy to the cat costume used in the parties. This Brazilian animation starts from two interesting points: the first one is Lino's hybridism. From the transformation, the protagonist is neither human nor animal, acquiring an unprecedented status in the eyes of the public and also of the other characters. In this sense, the sudden "meows" in Selton Mello's voice, mixed with the oral record, work very well. We have a creative premise, something praiseworthy within a genre as plastered as children's animation ..."

On the Omelete website, it has four stars out of five, Camila Sousa described Lino as: "Lino is not a film that reinvents animations, or creates several new elements, but its plot develops in an interesting way, with captivating characters, and the result is a production with the potential to please audiences of various age groups."

The newspaper O Globo, also described the film in a positive way, giving 3 stars out of five: "But, despite the adherence to conventional elements [...] and the investment in 3D does not significantly interfere in the result, "Lino" deserves to be checked. Ribas demonstrates potential to please a wide range of viewers."

Box Office
Lino - The Movie: A Seven-Life Adventure received wide box office reception both nationally and internationally, being shown in several countries, in particular Russia, being shown in 1,200 theaters in the country, in 2D and 3D formats, and raise more than R$ 4 million.

Overall, the film took over 1 million people to the cinema, which makes it the most-viewed animated movie in Brazilian Cinema.

Awards and Nominations
The movie was later nominated for the Platinum Award for best animated film, but lost to Las Aventuras de Tadeo 2.

Trivia

 * The movie spent about 7 years in development.
 * It is the first Brazilian movie to be release on both the 2D and 3D formats.

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