A good airplane movie

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2002)

I just saw this on a flight back from Hawaii, and, as a way to kill time on a crowded airplane, this fit the bill nicely. It is typical animated light entertainment, in which an unlikely group of animals team up (for a variety of different reasons) after they find a baby human. This plot gimmick is, for grown-ups anyway, rather contrived, but who cares? This is, first and foremost, a kid's movie, and it borrows heavily from the classic Disney animated films in that it features a veritable menagerie of interesting and offbeat animal characters whose interactions manage to transcend an otherwise implausible story. This is by no means a great film, nor even a great animated film, nevertheless it is entirely satisfying way to spend an hour and a half, especially when you're stuffed into the back of a DC-10 late at night out in the middle of the Pacific.
6/10