I really wanted to love this film

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2020)

I almost feel guilty for not liking this film. It has so many great ingredients and the team clearly put a lot of effort and heart into it. The main character's aspirations, the gags, the side characters, the animation, the imagination - oh, it was all so wonderful! Where can I even begin? But alas, the story was just so thin and predictable. The plot felt like an eleven-minute cartoon short expanded to a feature length movie. Relatable inventor makes some mad science, mad science goes mad, inventor saves the day. The other content like Flint's interactions with his father and Sam had a lot of potential but it ends up rather flat. Everything except the story is a solid 8/10, yet I can't ignore the story, so I have to belatedly give it 5/10.