What Was Brad Bird Thinking?

Rating: 4/10 (17 March 2011)

Okay, let's make the brave decision not to make Incredibles 2. Instead, let's go with a movie about a rat, and just to make sure even fewer people can get around that, let's make the rat and everyone else French. Nobody really likes the French. Even the French don't really like the French. The only reason to have French people in a movie is to make fun of being French. But that doesn't work unless there are enough non-French people to point out how much cooler it is not to be French. There was a great computer animation film featuring rats, but it was "Flushed Away" and the rats were Brits. There were some French frogs and they were hilarious. The only reason I give this one four stars was that everyone making this really worked hard. Don't waste your money on the Collector's Edition; you'll only feel bad for the Pixar people as they explain how they really, really thought they were doing great things making this disappointment.