Aardman, the company that created Chicken Run, and Wallace and Gromit, comes with a new film, which is bursting with originality and clever ideas all around, but with some lagging humor and a few overplayed jokes, it doesn't quite feel the same as when it was clay.
The story is about a rodent named Roddy (Hugh Jackman) who finds that when the cats are away, the mice will play, and having fun has never been so good, until a fat rat Sid (Shane Richie) intrudes, and sends Roddy flushed away. Now that Roddy has experienced the good life, he learns how down and dirty the world beneath him is, and falls accidentally into a plot with a female rodent Rita (Kate Winslet) an evil Toad (Sir Ian Mckellen) and a journey home that will prove to be difficult, but friendship will lead the way.
The movie is all in all fantastic, it's simple, easy to look at and overall fun. The voice acting by all the cast doesn't make them seem like a bunch of no talent voice actors that are often heard today. It's just the right length of time, so you won't be glancing at your watch, because your eyes will be lifted to the screen.
However, there were somethings I didn't care for. For one, a lot of jokes in the movie are mostly aimed at adults, the other kind of jokes are those that are aimed for children, and it's mostly chaotic and often painful scenes (I.E. midsection groin smashes, smashes against objects, Etc.) and it's okay, but there's too many of them, but consider it the idea of Fart jokes in American Cartoons to these, The smashes are much funnier.
Children under the age of 5 will not find humor or amusement in the movie, A number of kids in the movie were making noises, running through the aisle, and talking. I'm not referring to all of them, but majorities probably won't find this very fun.
If there is one other thing I didn't care for much was the modern music in the film, which is large leap from their original, mostly composed music pieces. In the film, there are slugs, and the slugs sing. I thought the music was good, but it annoyed me that a lot of the music was somewhat almost forced into the movie, and sometimes it work, but others were just annoying.
In short, the movie is okay, but Rental is much more worth it, avoid theater viewing.
The story is about a rodent named Roddy (Hugh Jackman) who finds that when the cats are away, the mice will play, and having fun has never been so good, until a fat rat Sid (Shane Richie) intrudes, and sends Roddy flushed away. Now that Roddy has experienced the good life, he learns how down and dirty the world beneath him is, and falls accidentally into a plot with a female rodent Rita (Kate Winslet) an evil Toad (Sir Ian Mckellen) and a journey home that will prove to be difficult, but friendship will lead the way.
The movie is all in all fantastic, it's simple, easy to look at and overall fun. The voice acting by all the cast doesn't make them seem like a bunch of no talent voice actors that are often heard today. It's just the right length of time, so you won't be glancing at your watch, because your eyes will be lifted to the screen.
However, there were somethings I didn't care for. For one, a lot of jokes in the movie are mostly aimed at adults, the other kind of jokes are those that are aimed for children, and it's mostly chaotic and often painful scenes (I.E. midsection groin smashes, smashes against objects, Etc.) and it's okay, but there's too many of them, but consider it the idea of Fart jokes in American Cartoons to these, The smashes are much funnier.
Children under the age of 5 will not find humor or amusement in the movie, A number of kids in the movie were making noises, running through the aisle, and talking. I'm not referring to all of them, but majorities probably won't find this very fun.
If there is one other thing I didn't care for much was the modern music in the film, which is large leap from their original, mostly composed music pieces. In the film, there are slugs, and the slugs sing. I thought the music was good, but it annoyed me that a lot of the music was somewhat almost forced into the movie, and sometimes it work, but others were just annoying.
In short, the movie is okay, but Rental is much more worth it, avoid theater viewing.