Bad acting, few laughs, cliché plot playing cool... classic Dreamworks

Rating: Null/10 (6 June 2006)

Kids under 10 might find it hilarious, adults who find it hilarious should get out more often.
I won't go into a long rant about how I have seen better CGI in amateur shorts, it's a Dreamworks cartoon... I don't get why these guys keep doing CGI that looks like 2D drawing... if you're not going to make it look better, why bother? The humans were especially horrible in that one... clothes, faces, expressions...
The acting was sub-par. You can tell that none of these actors have done much voice acting... in an amazing effort to not be over-dramatic, they fall flat. Willis and Shandling are unimpressive and I have to give a special mention to Avril Lavigne for being the worst in the bunch... please please... Avril, keep doing what you know. She sounds so fake, it sounds like her character's voiced by the kid of someone at Dreamworks or something. I didn't know she was playing that character and I was thinking 'what the hell' during the whole movie! Even Jojo was better in Aquamarine! But the worst part is the plot... I must say I got maybe a few smiles during the whole movie and if it's not a comedy then what is it? A boring 'family' type movie with clichés and the moral lesson hammered into it like it's from an episode of 7th heaven! The rest is a string of one line jokes about suburbia and ecology turned into visual skits without much imagination and with the trademark alternative rock band video clips part to look cool...
a waste of time!