What I would like to say is that this was a surprisingly more enjoyable than expected experience for me, than how I felt about the looks of this film by the trailers. It was full of lovely characters and a worthy story. It also had breathtaking animation, a lot of good detail about some parts of the world during the 1880s and a meaningful message about friendship and letting others not feel left out.

During 1886, an explorer and investigator of mythical creatures named Sir Lionel Frost learn that there is a creature living in America called a Sasquatch. Lionel travels to America to find the Sasquatch whom he can surprisingly talk to and learns that he wants to travel to the Himalayas to find his lost family. Lionel makes a deal with the creature that if he helps him find his home at the Himalayas than he can also prove the Sasquatch's existence to the world. Along the way, they encounter gun-fighting, sea-storms, train-jumping as well as a thug who was hired to try to stop Sir Lionel from making it home alive without any evidence of the Sasquatch's existence.

Missing Link was gorgeously animated, had stunning visuals and lively characters with excellent voice acting. It also gave some very good detail about some of the biggest landmarks during the 1880s, had some action here and there, and there was a meaningful moral about helping others feel not left out.

To be fair, what I didn't like about this film was that it felt pretty boring in some scenes. It didn't feel like one of the strongest stop-motion animated films I have ever seen and the fact that we have been getting a lot of other animated films about Bigfoot made this one feel pretty generic.

It is similar to many other animated films about sasquatches, as well as many other stop-motion animated films, mostly from Laika and many other films about making friends with unusual characters (e.g. "Smallfoot", "The Son of Bigfoot" and "Abominable").

Although it was not the best animated film of the year, I still find it a rather underappreciated film on its own and I can recommend it to anyone who is in the mood for a stop-motion animated film about a talking sasquatch. I can recommend this film to anyone who is in the mood to see a film about a talking sasquatch making friends with some humans, anyone who likes stop-motion films and anyone who loves animation in general.

There were words spoken through this film such as "Oh, bother", "Fiddlesticks", "Poppycock", "Sucks", "Bugger", "Oh God" and "Shoot". There was also one scene in which one character almost says the "Sh@t" word before getting interrupted by another character and that scene was played for comedy.

There was a lot of violence throughout this film such as one scene involving a bar-brawl which includes punches, kicks and headbutts. It also involved a man smashing a bottle on another man's head and a man getting thrown through a glass window. Another scene involved a woman getting accidentally elbowed on the face and knocked over a side of a boat. After the woman gets rescued, she accidentally gets hit on the head. There was one scene in which a man gets kicked on the crotch. A horse gets made to kick a man through a wall, a woman gets her head hit on the roof on a train with no backup and each time the children would declare they were dead. During the climax, three men fall to their deaths off-screen which involves one of the men getting stabbed on the chest by an icicle when he falls to his death. Although there was one scene in which gunfire is exchanged, no one gets shot. There were a lot of guns in Missing link for a family movie, but no one gets shot. There is an assassin hired to assassinate Sir Lionel Frost and the sasquatch before they can make it home alive. Adelina later brings her weapons to fight back. There was another scene involving an old woman threatened with a gun and then her great-grandson also gets threatened, even though neither the old woman or her great-grandchild receives any harm in the end. Sir Lionel, the sasquatch and Adelina gets threatened with spears near the end of the film. In the opening prologue, Sir Lionel's former assistant almost gets swallowed by a loch-ness monster but doesn't die. The was one scene near the end when the three main characters get threatened with spears and there was talk of killing the sasquatch and stuffing his corpse as well as murdering the other main characters. One man chases another man with an axe, intending to kill the man with the axe. There was a lot of gun threat such as a man threatening to shoot a woman on the head. The villains threaten an old woman with a gun before threatening her infant great-grandson, even though neither the elderly or the infant receive any harm in the end.

There were a lot of pursuits throughout this film. I would like to warn some people with autism that there was a couple of scenes involving drool and spit, as well as some quite intimidating sounds here and there and scenes that might make some feel over-whelmed with anxiety since those scenes might make some people with autism worry whether or not the heroes will survive in the end.

Some scenes were very brightly colourful, scenes that had very bright lights and some scenes that contained a lot of fighting and peril.

The story and dialogue of the film were moderately complex, so some people with autism might need some help understanding the plot from either a parent or caretaker if they want to understand the film more.