Grows on You

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2012)

This is one of those movies you have to see several times to get all the nuances and gags.
This movie spoofs a lot of movies and salutes a lot of traditional values.
The score is perfectly suited to the action.
It is amazing that the animation and the score can telegraph emotion as well as it does.
While a number of the things that happen in this movie would not stand up to scientific scrutiny, the plot is so engaging that it is easy to suspend belief after the original liftoff.
When many other animated movies offer up dialog that borders on the smutty just for a laugh, this is a breath of fresh air by comparison.
All in all, a good way to spend an hour and a half or so.
Anybody notice that Charles Muntz looks like a caricature of Kirk Douglas?
Squirrel!