Sophisticated fur

Rating: 4/10 (9 December 2005)

Have you ever thought about how difficult it is to animate furred animals on the computer? This film gives us an impression how this is solved in these days: almost perfect I would say and I am that convinced now, because they showed us in very broad details, how good they are in doing so. Maybe they forgot to look at whats needed in addition to make up a convincing movie. Maybe the Lord of the Ring has "ruined" the scene of this kind of movies by being too perfect. OK, they tried to copy several elements, but constantly they succeeded in destroying their well done computer tricks by lots of nasty looking blue-box scenes. Few moments have some kind of "romantic touch". Additionally most of the real actors seem not to love their job. Sometimes I got the feeling that they are just clumsy reading some lines from a teleprompter while their animated counterparts are always more talented. From my point of view this film is absolutely childish and a waste of time for grown ups. Maybe my little kids like it - no blood at all and its black'n'white all over. No follow-ups please.