It's More Annoying Than Anything

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2009)

Let's not kid ourselves, a children's movie has to have sparkly colors and a relatively short run time. However, this movie contains both, but the writing for an almost wordless children's book tends to be a bit stretched. Moreover, the dialogue is not needed and is detrimental to this movie. This movie should be just a short film that contains no sound, but still beautiful images.
Mentioning images brings me to my second gripe. In the TV show "30 Rock" Tracy Morgan mentions the creepy valley: The creepy valley is that animations that are lifelike to a fault tend to be frightening. The movie's characters tend to fall into the creepy valley, which again could be cured by using simple, austere animating techniques.
Overall it's not a bad movie and it's definitely worth a rental, especially those of you who have children. Be forewarned though, it contains a lot of Christian messages and if you are uncomfortable exposing your children to that, stay away!