A Cute Children's Movie

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2011)

I will admit it- some of my favorite movies of all time are children's cartoon movies. The heart-warming themes, innocent plots, all feed into my memories of my happy childhood. Sadly, many recent children's movies have been a major disappointment to me...Over the Hedge grated against my nerves, The Wild bored me (and was a total rip-off of Madagascar, which was a very good movie), and Hoodwinked Too destroyed my love for it's prequel (darn you movie!). However, when I saw the commercial for this movie, the story intrigued me. The colors were brilliant and fun to look at, the story seemed cute (even though not very original...), and the main character seemed somewhat tolerable for a children's movie hero. The movie was as I summarized- cute. It wasn't anything too special or magnificent, but simply cute. The voice acting wasn't very impressive, but it made up for it with it's vivid scenery, enjoyable music, and lovable hero. The story was, of course, cliché, but it was a fun cliché. It seemed to know it was not very original, but it embraced this and didn't try to pretend that it was, and instead focused on visually pleasing the audience. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, however it could never compete with some of the great cartoon classics (I.E. Beauty and the Beast, which is my all time favorite movie!). It is instead, I repeat, cute.