Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (29 June 2005)

The art work was nice - but really the film is full of half developed themes, half developed characters and half developed story lines. Thankfully it wasn't as in your face as Sharks Tale, but is no where near as good as the Pixar cartoons like Toy Story. Even my kids got a bit bored (age 3 and 5) interestingly they seem to be able to follow the Pixar ones better with more involved stories and characters - perhaps kids aren't as dumb as people like to think - and in fact I wonder how well Dreamworks SKG understand the way kids think - Shrek was too scary, Sharks tale too loud and spasmodic - Madagascar was a step in the right direction but needed a lot more script work before it was made - it could have been quite good.