A funny lame great rocking movie

Rating: 7/10 (6 October 2004)

What a cast for an animation movie ... but does it matter? Actually, no. Robert Deniro, Renee Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Will Smith, Martin Scorsese ... those people are top notch, but in this movie, they are exchangeable and not what they bring to their characters in non animated movies. Without them this movie would be yet another fun movie, but with a cast like that you could expect more: This is "just" one of those Hollywood movies, an underdog story with a uber-super-duper-happy ending. been there, seen that about a million times.
But on the other hand, its just too fun to rate below 7. The jokes and sidekicks work from the beginning, you laugh about the ideas these crazy Dreamworks guys came up with, but you did so in all the other animation flicks, too. I guess if that movie came 3 years earlier, it would have been great.
To sum it up: Give it a different story, rework that Lola/Angelina Jolie character (what in the name ...), but keep the gags in it.