"If you must blink, do it now," Kubo, the masterful boy storyteller, intones in the opening moments of Kubo and the Two Strings as the tale of family, memory, fate and honor begins to unfold.
The boy, voiced with a sense of defiance and expectant adventure by Game of Thrones' Art Parkinson, says it several times more before the epic animated riff on samurai stories reaches its conclusion. You'd be wise to heed the warning. To blink would be to miss something strange and wondrous in what is arguably one of the most creative and visionary films of its kind, dating back perhaps to Disney in the late 30s and Pixar in the mid-90s.
