Harmless, lightweight fun

Rating: 6/10 (30 March 2002)

I really wanted to like this movie, but I have to say it did not live up to my expectations. The movie wasn't bad, necessarily, but it wasn't great either. The voice acting was quite good, especially Denis Leary, and most of the jokes were pretty humorous, but thats about where it stops. The plot was quite thin, even for a comedy, with a sickeningly sweet sentimental ending. The movie was pretty slow paced, with long period of not much happening. The animation was average at best, with the human characters looking especially bad. The animation in this film to that of "Monster, Inc." or even "Shrek" and you will see where I am coming from. Rating 5.5 out of 10 for adults, probably about 4 for kids (too sloooow for a young attention span).