Environmentalist propaganda

Rating: 1/10 (18 November 2006)

This movie was advertised as being a cute little animated story. Instead, it was an anti-religion environmentalist propaganda film made to target young audiences. The authority figures were purposely made to sound like fundamentalist Christians who believe in strange supernatural beings are completely inept, out of touch with reality, and are out to spoil everyone's fun. As a result, the young characters reject all advice that the older generations may have and go their own way at all costs. Humans are made out to be thoughtless destroyers of the environment lower in intelligence than birds. Though the behavior of the main character is innocent enough, it is obvious they are attempting to equate it with some of the serious moral problems of society today. Even without the underlying themes, the plot is poor even for a child's film. So, unless you want to teach your kids a morally bankrupt world view, or you value the environment more than all humanity, I don't recommend you see this movie.