Slap slap slap stick

Rating: 3/10 (14 September 2010)

To anticipate the experience of viewing this film, imagine spending 2 hours listening to the The Chipmunks chattering away without stop. Except that the giggling creatures in the film are not the Chipmunks. They are violent and vicious, constantly clobbering each other.
To pick one example out of many : two characters appear on screen, one holding a hammer, the other a spike to be planted. The character with the hammer suddenly smacks the other character on the head with it. No reason. Just to get a 'laugh'.
To me, a most disconcerting thing was to see the Mom sitting next to me in the cinema with her two toddlers burst out laughing.
The violence in this film is not at all like what we used to see in Roadrunner cartoons. No attempt were made then to portray the Roadrunner or the Coyote as three-dimensional human beings. There was no possibility of associating the characters on screen with real people.
The attempts at humor" in this film are more like that of the Three Stooges. If you loved the Stooges, Despicable Me will leave you in stitches.