Mr. Peabody & Sherman Reviews

Even though it seemed to be another flop from DreamWorks, my daughter was apparently quite eager to check it out. To be honest, I wasn't really familiar with the cartoon it was based on but the fact that it was a spin-off from 'The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show' wasn't really a good omen. Indeed, I really didn’t like it at all and the whole thing completely rubbed me in the wrong way. I mean, you start with a dog who is a genius and who can talk, then he adopts a kid and one of his most important rules is that the boy is not allowed to call him 'daddy'. Seriously?!? Maybe it was hilariously 50 years ago but it just didn’t work for me. What was even worse was the fact that, ok, we apparently live in a fantasy world where such things can happen but, against any logic, it gets all serious and they start to question the fact a dog might not be able to raise a child. By then, the whole thing was pretty hopeless for me but they even managed to add to one of the most annoying little girls I have ever seen. Finally, and that will be the last nail in the coffin, the whole episodic structure made it quite obvious that it was and should have remained a TV show. At least, I have to admit it, the two main characters were cute and funny but everything else was pretty much worthless. To conclude, I thought it was one of the weakest animated features I have seen for a while and I don't think it is worth a look.

I liked last two movies from DreamWorks Animations. Besides Disney and Pixer I kind of like this production house because the first ever 3D animation I ever saw was 'Antz', when I was a child. In their 30 movies this is only the second movie based on sci-fi after 'Megamind'. I was familiar with 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman' before, but kind of inconsistent in watching them when it was aired on television. So I expected nothing, but enjoyed watching this movie. A matured story, the cute characters and a pleasant animation, overall an excellent update from the cartoon to the 3D characters. When Disney did same for Micky family I was disappointed a lot. You know 2D animations are kind of jerky animations and that is a different kind of pleasure, but this one was so smooth, I loved it.

Mr. Peabody had a regret that he was not adopted when he was a puppy. Now he's an adult dog, also a smart and intelligent. Decides to adopt a boy and names him Sherman. He teaches everything that he knows and tours with him to the different eras for the educational purpose through his invention WABAC, a time-machine. One day in the school Sherman gets humiliated for saying the truth and a big trouble knocks the Mr. Peabody's door. To make everything right a first step had been taken, but accidentally an adventure begins through times and space. A trouble after another follows them and what they need is one solution that can solve all their problems is the rest of the story.

Every dog should have a boy!.

If you think it's for kids only referring the 60s animated television series, definitely you are wrong. When you see the characters anyone can feel that way, but once you watch the movie your perspective will change. Many things were taken straight from the series like time travelling adventures. In fact, to say adults can understand the story fully than children. It meets lots of historical events in the original timeline, but the fun part was to see them in an animation. A coming-of-age theme in animation, but was told in a fun adventure. It just fulfilled me of watching all the episodes of the original classic animation short, at a time. Like I said young kids can't get what's happening, but can have fun which delivered consistently throughout with the nice dialogues and locations. I hope they are going to announce a sequel, otherwise it will be a disappointment to know there will be no follow-up for a cute little movie.

So this was directed by Rob Minkoff who did The Lion King followed by a series of not so good movies sadly. Anyways this looked promising so I decided to check it out. Mr. Peabody is a pretty awesome character. I found it funny that whenever Mr. Peabody made a pun Sherman would laugh and say he didn't get it. Which I am pretty sure the target audience probably wouldn't get a lot of them either, but the parents, young adults, and teenagers would. It's interesting that absolutely none of the characters have a problem with a talking dog only they make fun of his adoptive son. I enjoyed seeing some of the more interesting moments of history involved. It kind of reminded me of Wishbone and how he would get involved in historical events. I actually enjoyed it more and more as the movie moved forward. I recommend going to see this.