I don't know who Elias Zubair is (reviewer who gave it 10/10) but either they worked on the film or this is the only film they've ever seen in their life. There's nothing really special about this film. It's average. The comedic element is tame; starts out with a protagonist who wants to take over a small town and its farms and ventures from there in showing how farm life is great. I live in a farming community, myself, cartoons like this only show the happy parts; like it's all fun and games. While those aspects can be there from time to time, it's mainly hard work.
The animation is pretty good; I've seen worse. The script is bland in the sense of paint-by-numbers. I think this film is more for 10 and under. I really don't see it holding the attention of anyone else. It barely held mine. If there were laughs, I probably forgot them or didn't laugh. Not good.
The opening scene of the kid playing the car racing video game is prevalent later in the film where the kid is in a car chase on a bicycle. Apparently a kid on a bicycle goes faster than a goon in a car as long as there are obstacles. Kind of reminded me of the scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial but I enjoyed that one better.
So, the film is about two children (brother and sister) who spend a few weeks on their grandparents (the grandpa is voiced by Mark Hamill) farm where the protagonist is really just one man and his magician brother (voiced by Kelsey Grammar (website keeps changing it to 'Grammar', I know it's with an 'e')) but representing some huge corporation who wants a town and its farms because big companies are always good as bad guys and poor uneducated farmers and townspeople are always good as the heroes. They want to build the biggest factory-mall in the world because the world always needs more of those. Throw in a couple of kids, Paul Bunyan (voiced by John Goodman), and a blue Ox (voiced by Jeff Foxworthy) that talks and we got a winner!
This film, as a kids film, sure does have a lot of name-calling in it. Mainly by the main protagonist against the farmers and townspeople. Is there an underlining point to this film? Probably. Could be greed of people; the Paul Bunyan character does talk about the greed of people in his day. Then, you have the main protagonist wanting all that land and town all for himself to be "filthy rich". Oh, he even has the water poisoned. There are two separate stories here which they attempt to connect toward the end; the protagonist story which is: corporations are evil and bad and just want everything, and the Paul Bunyan and blue Ox story. I think the latter story (Bunyan/Ox) would have been a better story to tell, I mean: they're the title of the film. Seems a no-brainer.
While it is true there are bad companies out there that are purely in existence for profit, and nothing else it doesn't actually work in this film because it's actually not the greed of a corporation but of one person who runs the corporation. If it was such a big bad corporation then the protagonist would have all the means to do all the things he sets out to do and not have to illicit the help of his fake magician brother whose apparent skill is hypnosis. So, that story doesn't even work. Now, the other could have worked (the main title story) if the other story wasn't injected into it. I probably would have loved watching that but instead they mesh two opposite stories together and try to make it political. I have no problem with animated films having a political slant to them, Wall- E is a great example of a politicized animated film, and it's a great film. This film: not so much.
The animation is pretty good; I've seen worse. The script is bland in the sense of paint-by-numbers. I think this film is more for 10 and under. I really don't see it holding the attention of anyone else. It barely held mine. If there were laughs, I probably forgot them or didn't laugh. Not good.
The opening scene of the kid playing the car racing video game is prevalent later in the film where the kid is in a car chase on a bicycle. Apparently a kid on a bicycle goes faster than a goon in a car as long as there are obstacles. Kind of reminded me of the scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial but I enjoyed that one better.
So, the film is about two children (brother and sister) who spend a few weeks on their grandparents (the grandpa is voiced by Mark Hamill) farm where the protagonist is really just one man and his magician brother (voiced by Kelsey Grammar (website keeps changing it to 'Grammar', I know it's with an 'e')) but representing some huge corporation who wants a town and its farms because big companies are always good as bad guys and poor uneducated farmers and townspeople are always good as the heroes. They want to build the biggest factory-mall in the world because the world always needs more of those. Throw in a couple of kids, Paul Bunyan (voiced by John Goodman), and a blue Ox (voiced by Jeff Foxworthy) that talks and we got a winner!
This film, as a kids film, sure does have a lot of name-calling in it. Mainly by the main protagonist against the farmers and townspeople. Is there an underlining point to this film? Probably. Could be greed of people; the Paul Bunyan character does talk about the greed of people in his day. Then, you have the main protagonist wanting all that land and town all for himself to be "filthy rich". Oh, he even has the water poisoned. There are two separate stories here which they attempt to connect toward the end; the protagonist story which is: corporations are evil and bad and just want everything, and the Paul Bunyan and blue Ox story. I think the latter story (Bunyan/Ox) would have been a better story to tell, I mean: they're the title of the film. Seems a no-brainer.
While it is true there are bad companies out there that are purely in existence for profit, and nothing else it doesn't actually work in this film because it's actually not the greed of a corporation but of one person who runs the corporation. If it was such a big bad corporation then the protagonist would have all the means to do all the things he sets out to do and not have to illicit the help of his fake magician brother whose apparent skill is hypnosis. So, that story doesn't even work. Now, the other could have worked (the main title story) if the other story wasn't injected into it. I probably would have loved watching that but instead they mesh two opposite stories together and try to make it political. I have no problem with animated films having a political slant to them, Wall- E is a great example of a politicized animated film, and it's a great film. This film: not so much.