It tries but it fails

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2006)

Saw the movie recently and it finally happened.. Pixar failed to deliver a great movie. It was mediocre and for a company that produced so many good movies this is disappointing as hell but i guess every streak ends sometime.
The basics of the story revolve around an arrogant hotshot who by chance end up in the middle of nowhere and is slowly taught values by the inhabitants who have a heart of gold. To be honest.. this story has been filmed so many times in so many variations that i almost could tell exactly what was going to happen before i saw it.
It is an extremely lazy story effort by the Pixar team and i'm putting this movie on the same level as Robots which i truly didn't care about. The characters are bland stereotypes.. you have the redneck (a little bit slow) guy, the wise old man, the love interest, comic relief characters etc.
At no point in the story did i truly become engaged with the characters since they were so uninteresting and to be honest.. most of the time not funny (even the comedy relief characters). I laughed a total of 3 or 4 times throughout the whole movie whereas Nemo or Incredibles had me on the floor for minutes almost from scene to scene.
The whole movie lacks originality and the certain "it" to be considered good. Mind you.. Pixar good is groundbreaking for other companies but this movie is mediocre and definitely the weakest of their entire line.