Review: There's too much movie in Fleak, and not enough
Viva Kids has been having a great year, with a slew of strong titles in the first half of the year, and the fascinating-looking Tom and Jerry: The Forbidden Compass coming out in a few weeks. Viva has an interesting approach to releases, and is sometimes hard to pin down. Most of their movies pop up in theaters at least for a short time, but then once in a while they put something out digitally, sometimes with next to no fanfare (I'm thinking of The Green Dinosaur , my favorite movie they've ever distributed). Fleak is somewhere in the middle ground: a movie that they put out digitally without a theatrical footprint, but one that they've done a nice job promoting. I finally caught up with it yesterday. I can see why Viva eschewed a theatrical berth for this one, because Fleak is a truly strange movie, and one that could feel like a bait-and-switch in a way. When you look at an image of the movie, you see a boy and a cute little alien creature flying through the air, and you...
