Unicorn Store (2017)

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  d_riptide

  3 / 10

  Why Brie Larsons “Unicorn Store” exists today is beyond me. Despite being made in the year 2017, it comes out two years later on Netflix to an abysmal reaction, so much so that Netflix also had to go to quite the lengths to silence users to protect Larson and the movie she’s in. And that’s the thing I don’t understand because this film that SHE directed squanders what could’ve been a decent coming of age story.
  
  It’s preachy and manipulative in the influence and actions of its main character but dull and uninteresting despite its whimsical and magical intentions, none of which follow through. Outside of Samuel L. Jackson’s performance and character, all the others just fell completely flat and the story and message is confusing. In this film, a fantasy comedy about the means of growing up, it did the exact opposite of portraying its message in a positive light and even then, it didn’t make me laugh on any certain terms, it actively had absolutely no idea what it’s trying to tell me and yet it’s hopelessly aimless whenever it gets back on track to the story. Larson herself had absolutely no idea how to tell this story and I, as part of the audience, had no idea how I was supposed to watch it.
  
  
  Embracing our inner child while still managing to grow up isn’t uncommon but once again, you need to do it in a way that doesn’t sound like it’s riding the woke SJW millennial train. And for the life of me, everything that culminates together here is nothing more but a rainbow colored splattered mess. Brie Larson is not ready to be a director yet.

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