Shakti Sounder Rajan's high-concept medical thriller falls flat, even with its USP of a fairly big (animated) talking bear. The VFX for the teddy bear is done quite well, but the writing is absolutely awful. In fact, the teddy bear character is that of a typical "loosu ponnu" with zero intrinsic qualities. Arya plays this invincible, genius loner (with OCD) - a terrible move right from the start, because none of the challenges that the screenplay poses to him really matter. The teddy bear, while neatly animated, is such a boring, uninteresting character that nobody would want to "save", let alone our perfectionist hero.
Please don't raise logic-related questions in several scenes as even the writer-director is clear it exists nowhere within this film's universe. No one questions why a giant teddy bear randomly appears everywhere and starts acting like a human? Nope! While Shakti can add Teddy to his list of "firsts" in Tamil cinema (he previously made Miruthan and Tik Tik Tik), the writing in Teddy is clearly the worst among the lot. Simply put, it's un-bear-able!
Please don't raise logic-related questions in several scenes as even the writer-director is clear it exists nowhere within this film's universe. No one questions why a giant teddy bear randomly appears everywhere and starts acting like a human? Nope! While Shakti can add Teddy to his list of "firsts" in Tamil cinema (he previously made Miruthan and Tik Tik Tik), the writing in Teddy is clearly the worst among the lot. Simply put, it's un-bear-able!