The profile of a young autistic man who learned to cope with life's turmoils and ever changing emotions through Disney movies, which he obsessively consumes and knows verbatim. Life, Animated, one of this year's Academy Award nominees, is a poor excuse for a documentary: soppy, forced, borderline exploitative and, perhaps at its basest, a shameful Disney Ad. * 1/2 out of ****
The profile of a young autistic man who learned to cope with life's turmoils and ever changing emotions through Disney movies, which he obsessively consumes and knows verbatim. Life, Animated, one of this year's Academy Award nominees, is a poor excuse for a documentary: soppy, forced, borderline exploitative and, perhaps at its basest, a shameful Disney Ad. * 1/2 out of ****