Awful Awful Awful Hollywood Rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (22 August 2009)

What is happening to Hollywood movies?! It seems like in the last 10 years or so they've been so busy rushing through scripts to select the ones that tick all the target audience quota, that they have forgotten what it means to make a good movie. And this pile of garbage holds true to that mushy "American family" feel they try to regurgitate over and over and over again. Making way too many direct and obvious references to the lives humans lead. Now yes it may be a movie ultimately aimed at children but I for one really enjoyed the 1st and 2nd movies. They were well written, incredibly funny and top-notch on design. This however, is just cheesy punchline after cheesy moment after cheesy character. There were far too many jokes referenced to snot and other 'gruesome' mucus-y type fluids, which were way over-used and overrated as a gag. Also, some of the dialogue was just plain mean and questionably perverse. Like the lines "Why are we saving Sid? I don't even like Sid, no one does, hes an idiot hahahaha" and "I dunno why everyone says 'I've got your back', all the best bits are in the front".
All in all, the movie lacked any real substance, the characters were old and bland and the whole thing just ended up being yet another Hollywood movie out to make a quick buck, which will be forgotten in the weeks after its taken off cinema.
What a waste of talent on the animators' parts...