Being a spy is a dangerous game, never being sure who to trust, danger around every corner and having commit acts of malice in a crowd of enemies. But sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture, sometimes you need a… bird’s eye view
OK, it was a
cheap joke but seriously, we’re looking at the last major effort of Blue-Sky
Studios before it was absorbed into the House of Mouse. Blue Sky Studios is a
mid-tier animation studio, most famously behind the Ice Age Films. The
animation doesn’t carry the high bar of Pixar films, but bears a slightly
higher prestige than say Illumination.
Anyway,
Spies in disguise, based on the short film Pigeon: Impossible, though loosely
from what I can tell, the film has a full-on celebrity voice cast featuring
Will Smith, Tom Holland, Karen Gillen, Ben Mendelsohn and… DJ Khaled?
Anyway, the film released in December 2019 to a fairly positive reception but that didn’t translate well to money at the box office, the film received only $150m on its $100m budget. I don’t think Disney really cared whether this made money or not. Let’s dive in and see whether or not that’s a justified position.
