Just as we have sat around campfires (real and digital) listening to tales of the yeti, imagine if cute little yetis were sitting around a campfire getting wild thrills imagining the existence of Small Foot or humans.
Hotel Transylvania showed us as that Dracula, Frankenstein and other scary creatures were just regular guys who were terrified of evil humans and Monstropolis in Monsters Incis powered by little children’s shrieks.
Smallfoottells of a yeti, Migo, who lives with his fellow yetis in a village high above the mountains following all the rules laid down in stone (literally) till he accidentally falls off the edge and sees a human who the yeti believe are legends.
There is also wildlife documentary filmmaker, Percy Patterson, who sees the yeti as a way to win back his celebrity, the SES (Smallfoot Evidentiary Society) and Stonekeeper, the yeti chief who would rather keep things as they are.
- Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
- Cast: Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, Yara Shahidi, Ely Henry, Jimmy Tatro
- Storyline: A yeti village is turned upside down with the discovery of a human
- Run time: 96 minutes
While Smallfoot from Warner Animation Group works as a cute, colourful, singing, swinging adventure, it also makes a cause for being accepting of difference and change. The songs are fun takes on pop music including ‘Percy’s Pressure’ based on Queen’s ‘Under Pressure’.
The yeti, like Nessie, the Loch Ness monster is a well-beloved pop cultural icon and in its latest outing the love and mystery has just got shinier and cuter. Incidentally, the yeti is called mi-go in Tibetan so Migo is a yeti named Yeti.