Review: Return to Kellogg oozes cozy Canadian charm
When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time playing with action figures (which I referred to as "my guys"), stuffed animals, and LEGO sets. A lot of the time I was playing, I was structuring my play sessions as TV shows. I had The LEGO Show, of course. And a talk show hosted by a stuffed whale I got at Sea World. I don't remember the others, but I imagined them all playing on a channel called C!, as one does. (Is it any wonder I ended up working in the entertainment industry?) Watching writer-director Carolyn Gair's delightful Return to Kellogg felt like being in one of those play sessions, albeit one with more narrative know-how than what I was working with in my grade school days. Stop-motion animated with a variety of action figures and toys, the film is a shaggy charmer that has that magical feeling of a day just playing around and having fun. There's a boundless, joyful creativity at the core of this movie, one that's infectious. It's also extremely Canad...
