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The interior is evolutionary but it adopts higher quality materials and a new center stack with "real buttons." The latter change isn't pretty but it should alleviate complaints from frustrated customers who despised the previous touch-sensitive controls. The styling changes are less noticeable out back but include new taillights and an optimized spoiler that promises to reduce drag. But whenever Sacha interacts with a surly bar owner or scheming first mate, "Long Way North" too often treats compassion, especially between men and women, like an on-and-off switch inside a person’s soul. With its simplistic perspective, "Long Way North" risks being merely a nice gesture instead of a poetic, ice-breaking guide that points towards progress.Looking instantly recognizable, the facelifted crossover adopts a new front bumper, a revised grille and restyled headlights. More than just an adventure, the story focuses on people helping each other, and how our individual paths are often directed by the support of others. While its tone can be ambitious, almost turning a PG-rated animated tale into a Herzogian life-and-death pursuit, the characters don’t have the nuance despite the film’s direct interest in empathy. In the case of the narrative, that stark attitude doesn’t bode so well. Especially as the characters are surrounded by ice and cold, the stark white images prove simple yet expressive. This French animated film (available in French with English subtitles, as I viewed it, or in English during its theatrical release) is directed by Rémi Chayé, who previously was an assistant director on the Oscar-nominated animated film “ The Secret of Kells.” “Long Way North” is a different vision, using clear-defined colors, shapes and shadows for hand-drawn beauty, giving the film a bold, intricately-cut-construction-paper look. Especially with the movie's thunderous sound design, there are a few gripping sequences of action involving a ship fighting against mountains of ice. A large ship, a brutal frost, and the uncertain fate of Oloukine generate some needed narrative tension. But when "Long Way North" does get on the water and then into the deadly ice, there are grand moments of adventure.

Though Sacha is how we get into the story, and it is intriguing to see her personal journey, the odyssey of the crew proves most narratively gripping, which starts after a slow 30 minutes into an 80-minute movie. She's initially treated as a complete outsider, even though she knows the possible course to the ship, but is welcomed when she can finally display her skills.

Armed with new perspective, Sacha is eventually able to convince a crew of men, including the tough captain Lund (voiced by Loïc Houdré) that they should help her seek the Davai, convincing them with the possibility of reward money. But as strangers either take advantage or support her in different ways, the story becomes grounded in acts or failures of compassion that we experience day-by-day. Her entitled perspective of somehow easily finding passage after running away is challenged by the selfishness of others.

With everyone telling her to drop the idea and hinting that she should focus more on her relationship status, she leaves in the middle of the night with a pair of valuable earrings, which she hopes to use as payment to get on a ship towards the North Pole. At a ball hosted by her father in honor of the prince, she uses the pairing with the slimy piece of royalty to see if he’d be interested in funding a rescue mission, but her agency so insults him that he storms out, embarrassing her father in the process. Sacha seeks help from the men of power near her, initially attempting to navigate through what they want from her.