Mediocre Pixar

Rating: 5/10 (13 January 2013)

In the past Pixar has pushed the envelope in US animation, making more adult films than those of Disney and other studios. Thanks to their Ghibli inspiration, they managed to attain levels of artistic excellence lacking in other US animation studios. However, this cartoon is an exception: out of the Pixar films I have watched (including all their 1995-2012 films except Cars, 1 and 2), this was the weakest. Indeed, this is a quite weak film that will only please small children.
It is also shorter than most Pixar films, at 80 minutes of actual film, short because children will not manage to watch longer films. Indeed, this is completely pedestrian and mediocre film that recycles all the tropes from previous Disney and Pixar films and packages them in a more beautiful CGI look than ever before.