Teenager Autumn Edison (Lumi Pollack) lives in New York with her father
Scenario
After years in New York, 14-year-old Autumn returns to the Amazon rainforest to save her childhood village and her beloved jaguar. A spiritual remake of Gilles de Maistre’s previous film, Mia ja valkoinen leijona (2018). They abandoned their home in the Amazon jungle and her tribe after the murder of her activist mother 8 years earlier.
Her father hid letters from her tribal relatives
Loggers, poachers, and others were destroying the landscape all around them. As a child, Autumn befriended a jaguar, whom she named Hope. There is only one jaguar left in the area, and it is being hunted endlessly.
Autumn fears it is Hope and runs away from home in a desperate attempt to save her friend
She is followed by her agoraphobic science teacher Anja (Emily Bett Rickards), who tries to protect her student despite being completely miserable herself. It reminds me a lot of those old Disney movies with surreal characters, surreal situations, and surreal animals. At least this one has its heart in the right place, and some of the jungle locations are amazing.
I actually have no problem with Anja
As far as surreal characters go, I am more put off by Disney’s attempt at a princess. It’s funny for them to be floating down a river like in a cartoon. She is meant to be comedic relief.
The situation in the Amazon is at least a little simplistic
The film is nice and enjoyable, but the fakeness overpowers the better parts.