Abominable is brought to us by the team who created How To Train Your Dragon, and has a great voice cast, including Chloe Benne, Sarah Paulson, Eddie Izzard, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Albert Tsai, Tsai Chin and Joe Izzo as Everest.
Disgruntled teenager Yi is struggling with life a little after losing her Father. She lives with her Mother and Grandmother, and takes on lots of different odd-jobs to save up to try and take a trip that her Dad had planned to take with her. One day while hiding in her den on the roof, she discovers a Yeti, who has escaped from a science lab.
The Yeti is friendly and cute, and just wants to go home. He's also a bit magic and has some tricks up his sleeve involving plants. Along with her friends Jin and Peng, Yi embarks on an epic journey to return her Yeti, Everest, to his mountain home and his family - with the scientists and money men in hot pursuit...
There are absolutely loads of extras on the 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD. Over an hour of bonus content including Dreamworks short movie - Marooned, a magical show-and-tell by Everest, deleted scenes, the making of Abominable, meet the cast, how to make a Chinese lantern, instructions for how to draw all of the characters yourself and 'Cooking With Nai Nai' - where Tsai Chin and top chef Chef Shirley show you how to make a delicious steamed pork bun recipe – just like Abominable’s favourite in the film!
I've shared a short movie of the cooking segment of the Blu-ray here, and around this post are some handy recipe sheets and activity sheets for you to print off...
We watched as a family and all really enjoyed the movie. The story has some similiarity to Chinese traditional religious tales - including Journey To The West by Wu Ch'eng-en, stories about the real-life journey of Hsuan Tsangof, a 7th-century monk. All kinds of exciting and improbable events occur during their trip, including a flight on a giant dandelion.
There are poignant moments. Main character Yi has lost her father, and playing her violin reminds her of him, so she struggles to play in front of people. It's something a lot of bereaved children will relate to. One of our children completely stopped singing when they lost their sister.
Everest isn't simply a great big hairy Abominable snowman, he is a real personality. He cares for the children, he loves Yi's music, he loves nature, and he just wants to go home.
Released in time for the half term, Abominable is out now on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-Ray and DVD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. DVD (rrp £10.99) and Blu-ray (rrp £14.99). From all good stockists, including online at Amazon (affiliate links below).
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment have kindly offered two of my readers a copy of Abominable on Blu-ray as a giveaway prize. Entry to the giveaway is by the Gleam form below for fairness. None of your details are used for anything other than this giveaway, and once the winner has been informed and admin complete, they're deleted.
The giveaway will end at midnight Sunday 8th March 2020 and is open to UK entrants only. Full terms and conditions are at the bottom of the Gleam form. If you're new to Gleam you can find a link to help and my other UK giveaways here...
Abominable Family Movie 2 x Blu-ray Giveaway (sent by Universal)
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Also a veggie for many years (decades, actually), I love how Chinese restaurants use tofu in their dishes. It used to be just sweet and sour but, these days, many more innovative dishes to choose.
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ReplyDelete100% vegetarian for 22 years (since I was 10) and eat mostly vegan due to dairy and egg intolerances since birth. I like stir fried veggies and also like vegetables and/or tofu/chicken alternative sweet and sour with rice
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ReplyDeleteAny type of Chinese curry, and spring rolls, yum. Thank you.
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