Good, but not great.

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2003)

I have to admit that I expected to be bowled over by this film, but although it was gorgeous to look at and quite amusing from time to time, it never really gripped me. I didn't really feel any great tension or emotion, despite the fact that I took my young son, who also had just started school. In fact he was even less thrilled with it than I was, as 10 minutes from the end he wanted to leave and I had to persuade him to stay to the end. No surprise then that his preferred animated films are still Shrek, Monsters Inc and A Bug's Life.