Incredible simple story 3D feature film

Rating: 5/10 (30 January 2011)

Having watched a lot of Pixar and Dreamworks animated movies, and having watched movies with the main voice (Steve Carell). I expected something on par with those - only to be disappointed together with my girlfriend who suffered throughout the movie with me.
Lots of scenes are pure 100% 3D-showoff, which is very lame when seeing it without glasses, some of these 3D scenes are long and very uninteresting with no dialog. The story even makes pauses for these scenes to finish !
The voice of the main character is performed by Steve Carell and has an Italian/Russian dialect which is terrible and unnecessary/misplaced, The voice of Anton Ego (Ratatouille) would have made a better dark/sinister voice (perhaps not suited for the story - but better for the character)
I felt the story too flat and the movie too focused on 3D features to find it as good as Toy Story, Ice Age, Over the Hedge etc.
HOWEVER!
Kudos to the animation studio - this is the finest quality of animated pictures I've ever seen (not counting Transformers and other realistic movies)