A good entertainer

Rating: 8/10 (22 May 2002)

I liked this. Ok, you may or may not agree - the plot is cartoonish and a bit clichee, as are certain lines ("why should we trust you now?" "cause you have no choice", how many times did we hear it?) but the characters are funny, the humor of situations is fresh, and the movie more or less flows undisturbed up to the Happy End. If you happen to read my notes both to "Shrek" and to "Monsters Inc", here's something linking all these three: this movie, albeit marginally less good than "Monsters" (see above) has got a hint of the salty humor of "Shrek" (the small squirrel mishaps are great). A hint: this is an excellent movie to start teaching your kid(s) to appreciate witty (and nasty) humor.