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Travis Knight's debut feature (and Laika Studios' fourth) Kubo and the Two Strings functions (as does most of the moviemaking outfit's projects) as welcome alternative to the Pixar/Disney school of animation--darker and not without horrors.
Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster is his unique brand of bizarre deadpan humor translated into feature-length English. The premise is imaginative: in a faintly futuristic society single adults or freshly single adults are checked into a resort and given forty-five days to find a suitable mate; if they fail, they're turned into animals, literally, the only upside being they have a choice of which.
"--have you thought of what animal you'd like to be if you end up alone?" the protagonist David (Colin Farrell) is asked.
"Yes. A lobster."
"Why a lobster?"
"Because lobsters live for over one hundred years, are blue-blooded like aristocrats, and stay fertile all their lives."