A bizarrely low-budget Chinese animated film, made by just a director and his mom over five years, is crashing the box office—earning $1.2 million in its first day—with audiences divided between mocking it as “ugly” and “eerie” or praising its raw, unpolished charm as a refreshing antidote to Hollywood perfection.

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