Wendell and Wild

Stream on Netflix

Runtime: 1 Hour and 46 Minutes

Rated PG-13

Two scheming demon brothers (Wendall and Wild) decide to stop working for their father in the underworld and come to the world of the living to build a theme park. There they meet up with a Hell Maiden who is supposed to be their servant, however she has other plans that include bringing her dead parents back to life. Things quickly go awry when a prison building cooperation gets involved.

Themes:

Demons, a transgender character, loss, boarding schools, girl’s schools, big corporations, adapting, juvenile deliquesces, breaking the rules, personal demons, resurrection, deals with demons, hair cream, blood binds, prison, prophecy, parents, protecting our children, protests, small towns, and good vs. evil.

Language: 0

A*s - 2 Bloody - 4 Crap - 1 D*mn - 1 Dang - 3 Heck - 1 Hell - 15 Religious Exclamations - 3

The phrase, “souls of the danged” is used.

Stuff to be aware of:

LFBTQ - There is a female character that goes by a different name. One character get her names mixed up. Two adults refer to her as “son” and “he.” The voice actor is trans in real life. A priest starts to wear lipstick and red makeup.

Scary - There are ghosts and demons, but none are that scary. A girl has a mouth tattoo on her hand and sometimes it glows and speaks for her when she holds it to her mouth. Her eyes also glow. There are a couple of stylized flashbacks that are creepy.

There is one short scene that seems like an exorcism with a character getting lifted off the floor.

Sexual - There are male demons that are not wearing shirts and their nipples can be seen. One character mentions that another one is shooting blanks. A demon drops a large tick down his pants.

Violence/Gore - Parents are seen sinking into a river in a car. They are not seen drowning, but they do die. A man is clubbed over the head with a golfclub. Only the shadow of this murder is seen, but then the man is seen being thrown into icy water. His dead and shriveled body is seen later and he comes back to life and pukes all over two characters.

A large tick gets smashed multiple time and his guts explode everywhere. Two smaller demons live in a larger demon’s nose and make things with his boogers. Multiple skeletons are raised from the dead. Some have worms coming out of them.

One character cuts two other character’s hands and mixes their blood. A zombie gets stabbed in the head.

Other - A character owns a brewery and beer is served in a brief scene. Two demon like characters “get high” off of a special kind of hair cream.

Overall:

Seeing It With Your Family

Don’t let the stop motion animation fool you, this really isn’t a movie for children or families.

What I Thought

This movie is a weird mess. I never want to watch it again.