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Posted on April 12, 2019 by Matt Blum
NOTE: A lot about the movie was already covered in my article from a few days ago. Some of what I say here is going to be similar to some of what I said there.
1. What’s it about?
Missing Link, which opens today (April 12, 2019), centers around three characters: Primarily, Sir Lionel Frost (voiced by Hugh Jackman), a skilled explorer who nonetheless cares more about his status with regard to other explorers than he does about actual exploration; Mr. Link (voiced by Zach Galifianakis), a surprisingly well-read and well-spoken, but lonely, sasquatch; and Adelina Fortnight (voiced by Zoe Saldana), a skilled adventurer herself, but is struggling to start the next chapter of her life following the untimely death of her husband.
The film takes place in an unspecified year in the late 1800s. The plot, basically, is that Sir Lionel is trying to get a group of other British explorers to accept him, yet due to lack of evidence he is persistently unable to do so despite making some pretty remarkable discoveries. He discovers (sort of) Mr. Link, who agrees to come back to England with him to prove that Sir Lionel is a great explorer, but only if Sir Lionel first takes him to find his Himalayan brethren, the yetis. In order to fulfill this…
