Review: writer/director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the film 's lamer instincts 
Sentiment: negative

Review: too clumsy in key moments 
Sentiment: negative

Review: is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one 
Sentiment: negative


Review: ... wise and elegiac ...