6 and under crowd

Rating: 4/10 (7 June 2005)

Outstanding animated movies such as Nemo and The Incredibles, even Robots have set the bar way higher than this film ever gets. Obvious jokes, hardly any character development - sort of like Looney Tunes without the cleverness. I don't know why they bothered with the expensive voice talent - the kids don't care and it adds little to the story or characters. Chris Rock is a pretty good Zebra - David Scwimmer is ROSS pretending to be a giraffe - more than a little distracting. Jada P-Smith is a big fat hippo with attitude but little to do in the film. Overall I thought there would be more done with the characters and more overall with the story. It's better than some straight to video selections but we won't be adding this DVD/video to our family library. Our daughter was entertained but almost immediately forgot about the movie and has little interest in any of the marketing products - clothes, toys etc - she could care less. Most of the funnies are seen in the trailer - sorry. But hey, my 5 year old thought it was high art.