that is just terribly bad

Rating: 1/10 (28 June 2016)

I think I have never wrote any review before after I watched a bad movie, but this one managed to lower the bar to a level where I simply cannot hold it back.
I was very much looking forward to this animation movie as the trailer was great and very promising (5 stars for the marketing people, they sold it).
I don't even know where to start. It is not funny at all. It is so not funny that they had to repeat the only reasonable joke we saw in the trailer 3(!) times (the headbanging poodle).
People did not laugh at all, not even the children! The conversations are horribly written, felt like they pulled out lines from the same kind of movies made in the last 20 years. Matter of fact the jokes that are also badly build up are also the same boring jokes that we saw before.
The characters are weak, the motivations are simply stupid and the series of events is just a big idiotic cliché.
I don't know what is the big hype around Kevin Hart lately, but he is bad as an actor and he proved himself to be bad as voice actor. Many times I did not understand what he screams, because all he does in every movie is shout in that very high pitch tone. You know what, I dare to say his character is based upon some racist stereotype cliché too, as no surprises he is the black gangsta type of character (at least act like one even though his character intended to be some sort of underground revolutionary leader, yet all they managed to come up with is a bad "I am small and cool and crazy kind of gangsta).
There are completely unnecessary scenes, just to squeeze out some sort of emotion from the audience and they sweat so they put some also cliché music behind it. Everything is so predictable and cheap in the plot and with the characters that is just amazing.
There is one beautiful thing in the whole movie and it is the look of the water, matter of fact it is pretty, but what for? It is the same old Hollywood mistake repeated again, beautiful visuals and awful content.
Would it be a disaster for once to spend more money and time on the plot and the character development and not just on the jaw dropping CGI.
We all get used to off the good cgi. We know what is possible.
Sometimes I have the feeling it is nothing else just some arty farty cgi show off with people who cannot grasp the possibilities of their own work.
Do not waste 90 minutes from your life with this rubbish.