Reviewed by Ben Lee
This
review contains no spoilers.
The title immediately made me curious. Wisdom Tooth. With a
title as intriguing as that, I was expecting a great plot, and I
was not disappointed. Wisdom Tooth is about an ordinary dentist
who wants a family, and one day, he is told something which
completely changes his life. The events are animated fairly
well, with the decent camera angles doing their job. By the end
of the movie, I really felt for Dale, the main character. For a
movie to do that, it has to be pretty special.
The story is the best thing about the movie. And since this was
just the first episode, I will expect the story to develop and
interest me more. But there are other good things about Wisdom
Tooth. Firstly, the voice-acting was great. Jaymond, as Dale, is
superb once again, and Jeff and Charles are great too. One
problem I found though was that sometimes the voices overlapped
each other. I'm not sure if it's because of my computer, but I
managed to ignore it.
The scenery isn't the best around, but it gets the job done. And
the music was decent enough too. Wisdom Tooth was marked as a
"Comedy/Drama". Comedy? Sorry, but I didn't find anything really
funny. I did smile at a few places, but I wouldn't class this as
a comedy. On a brighter note, to treat all of you, Warren Wagner
has given some little extras, which include original scenes and
Jaymond's audition. OK, it might not be important, but it is
nice to see a director do this once in a while.
The mediocre scenery and the occasional overlapping of the
voices does not spoil the movie. Ignore the fact that it's
supposed to be a comedy as well as a drama, and you've got
yourself a movie. I listened to every single word from start to
finish eagerly and I really did feel for the characters. As a
drama, this is great. So what if this was slightly rushed?
Wisdom Tooth kept my attention throughout the whole movie and
that is good enough for me. Well done Warren. Now get working on
episode two.
Score: 82/100
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