Good, but not up to its potential

Rating: 5/10 (7 October 2004)

My eleven-year-old daughter loved this movie, and it certainly does have its moments of humor and absolute fun. However, with the cast they had assembled, the potential was there for true greatness, and this movie misses that by a mile. It has some great sight gags and jokes and some really good voice acting but the story just isn't enough to carry the movie.
The sendup of "Godfather" is great - De Niro is great, as always, and if you can see this movie as a "Godfather" satire - well, it succeeded in that role, and wildly so. In most other areas it isn't quite so great, and the story suffers from one of the lamest Deus Ex Machina endings ever.
Still, its moments are enough to make it worth watching once, maybe. Like most movies, it's not for everyone - but I enjoyed it enough to not regret that I had gone, although I won't be going again.