My Father's Dragon (2022)

Nora Twomey's adaptation of Ruth Stiles Gannett's 1948 children's novel is the studio's warmest adventure and its most American. Elmer and his mother lose their sweet shop and move to Nevergreen City, and a talking cat sends him to Wild Island, where a gorilla named Saiwa is using a young dragon, Boris, to keep the island from sinking. Under the jungle chase it is a story about a child's worry over money and home, which gives it more weight than the premise suggests. Jacob Tremblay and Gaten Matarazzo voice the pair, with Ian McShane, Whoopi Goldberg and Golshifteh Farahani among a big cast, and the character animation keeps the studio's hand-drawn look. A good choice for primary-school viewers, on Netflix.