Now THIS is a good cartoon!

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2001)

When I first heard about this movie the first thing that popped into my mind was `great, another cartoon'. But it wasn't just another cartoon. This is probably one of the best cartoons that I have ever seen. It didn't get a lot of publicity and bombed at the box office. I can understand what people were thinking though because I didn't want to see it either. Just because Dreamworks or Disney didn't make the movie, no one wanted to see it.
This is a cartoon that actually had morals and wasn't just about singing and entertainment. It's more of a teen and adult movie than children's movie because children may have a hard time understanding some of the elements of the movie.
The voice-overs were great. Eli Marienthal isn't the best actor but he does a great job in this voice role. Maybe he should stick to voicing roles because he is very good at them. Jennifer Aniston is the last person whom you would expect to actually be able to put feeling into a voice-over but she does well too. Christopher McDonald is perfect as the paranoid army soldier. He always plays mean jerkish roles anyway so this is really not a change for him. And Harry Connick Jr. did a pretty decent job, seeing as though he never has had much emotion to his voice.
The animation is spectacular as well as the effects. There is a great story and I wish there were more cartoons like this out there that could teach children lessons while entertaining them. 10 out of 10.