These songs are especially helpful in the pic’s most openly erotic moments, as tongue-in-cheek reminders that what we see is not being presented as reality, but as a fantasy of a fantasy who isn’t quite sure what’s sexy and what’s just gratuitous enhancement.Hollywood seems to have a bit of an obsession with the idea of kids with immense powers. But Morelli’s light touch generally keeps the goofiness from becoming tiresome, especially given the help of some quirktronica compositions by Kid Koala on the soundtrack. There’s no way for all this to resolve that isn’t fairly absurd. This doll becomes a drug mule in hijinks that put Emma and Bob in the crosshairs of gangsters, with each new action-comedy development serving as proof that the plot is being invented by third-generation fictional character. The hardworking Michael Eklund, an attention-getting supporting player in three TIFF films this year, figures into that action as a mustachioed eccentric who hires Emma to make a replica of his ex-wife. It’s also the picture’s weak link dramatically, but proves to the plot once we discover that Michelle’s fits-and-starts writing is inventing the increasingly dopey things happening in Emma’s world. In contrast with the conventional production values of the main section, this one is full of restlessly tilting Dutch angles and sun-bleached highlights. Zoom‘s third narrative is the plot of Edward’s movie, in which a model named Michelle ( Mariana Ximenes) has aspirations to become a novelist and heads to a beachside resort to write. Bernal’s penile panic enlivens his facet of the film, but even in this flimsy reality we have a hard time believing the extent to which the production of his current film (an artsy, Brazil-set departure from his usual blockbusters) depends on his prowess in bed. Now Emma cuts him down to size, shrinking his manhood to Hedwigian proportions. Some time ago, she invented a fantasy boyfriend in comic-book form: Latin dreamboy Edward ( Bernal), whose glamorous life shooting movies in Brazil is presented here via rotoscoped animation.

Angry and anatomy-fixated, Emma turns to pen and ink.

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