The animation is nice

Rating: 4/10 (14 January 2012)

I don't know why this just doesn't sit well with me. It has everything going for it, a spectacular setting, better than average voice acting and a smooth and well told story.
Maybe, it is because after seeing about 10 or more of these animated tales, my standards are becoming too high. The story involving culture vs. nature has been told many times before and if you are going to tell it again, there has to be something more to it than that.
The characters are for the most part pleasant, except for the two sidekick birds, voiced by Will I Am and Jamie Foxx. Not that there is anything wrong with having two jive-talking characters in an animated movie, but it has been done to death. It is nothing against the two performers, who do quite well.
Normally, I am not a fan of animated musical numbers either, but luckily the songs here are snappy and doesn't take that much screen time. It is just that they are very similar to some I have seen in other animated features.
So, on the positive, this is the by far the best animation from Blue Sky I have seen yet. The plot, while not seen for the first time, moves at a snappy enough pace. There just wasn't any Wow! moments.