A simple tale simply told, The Blue Butterfly is the sort of decent family fare you may never be able to convince your kids to see. Your best approach is probably to tell them it's about bugs.
Insects and other Costa Rican wildlife are all over Lea Pool's tale of a terminally ill boy on a spirit quest to find a rare butterfly, so much so you may feel sticky. The camera pauses after and during virtually every scene for stunning, dewy IMAX-esque closeups of stick insects, giant spiders, weird frogs, snakes and lizards.
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