13/17
The life of a young glassblower in training and his relationships over the years, as his country goes through war and strife.. This is the first Pakistani hand-drawn animated film.. BEFORE u get angry, read my review till last and think about it. The glass worker is a nice movie, not gonna lie and I have been following it up for last 4-5 years. But I knew from the start, as this is Usman Riaz’s first movie the story will have problems and oh oh boy it had a lot. The ending was confusing to say the least, as many of the plot of the movie was missing and the movie wrapped it up pretty quickly. It also didn’t feel "original as Usman Riaz was inspired by Ghibli, which actually made the film feel like "too much" inspired by Ghibli. I know its his first movie but if he had been original with it, it would have been better and also made it more natural and calming rather then rapping it up quickly. IF you actually wanna see what a "MASTER PIECE" looks like, (as people here are screaming that this movie is, although it isn’t) Go watch HAYOA MIYAZAKI first film "Nausicaä The Valley of Wind". Or "the castle in the sky", then you will truly understand the art of animation and the beauty of a true master piece story. The reviews here are totally wrong saying it is the "best movie ever", I have seen alot , I mean ALOT of animated movies and especially Japanese, as I like there 2D natural artwork. I am pretty choosy about my animated movies and this one was an easy 7/10. The main reason being that is, although the animation was beautiful and nice, but the story lacked a lot and kinda felt amateurly written + not to forget the Urdu dubbing of the movie, which didn’t have any natural feelings. I will highly recommend watching the movie in ENGLISH rather then URDU, because the original script of the movie is in English, due to this the Urdu one felt like a google translation lmao.