POSITIVES…
Despite how silly they are, I found the animals quite entertaining, along with the voice cast that brings them to life.
I found the fact that Robert Downey Jr seemed very natural and convincing interacting with the animals to be one of the strengths of this movie.
Michael Sheen was also a good antagonist as Dr. Blair Müdfly. I give him kudos for looking like he was having fun playing the role as broad and over the top as he can.
The story itself is perfectly adequate and held my interest until the end. I did in fact wanted to see where it was going.
At its heart, the movie has some good lessons to teach the kids that this movie is clearly targeted for.
NEGATIVES…
The comedy in this movie is far too conventionally “kid humor” for my taste. On that note, a lot of the humor just didn’t work for me. Some were even kind of obnoxious.
This movie is filled with characters that hardly get much development, and are really just there to fill a plot point.
The character that really should be fleshed out more is our audience surrogate “Tommy Stubbins” played by Harry Collett. Unfortunately, despite some backstory and motivation, he’s still more or less a cypher.
Many overly ridiculous plot development in this movie, expected us to just take at face value. Hopefully they don’t completely break your suspension of disbelief.
Much has been said about the climax ending of this movie, but go back and see my point about how it leans towards the conventional kid humor.
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