An average movie

Ever since ‘Toy Story’ became a critical and financial success, CGI animation has been an ever expanding market. Nowadays, you have two giants, ‘Pixar’ and ‘Dreamworks’, but behind those two , you can find a multitude of smaller studios trying their hands at this popular genre. One of them is Sony Pictures Animation. Their business is actually pretty healthy, although it is rather disappointing that their most successful feature happens to be so far ‘The Smurfs’. Anyway, this flick was their first feature film and I thought it was a flop but, in fact, it was actually quite successful even though not at the level of such a mega success like ‘Shrek’ for example. Anyway, I thought it was not bad at all, especially for a first production. Indeed, I really liked the animation and the characters were cecent. Unfortunately, the story was barely original. I mean, at this point, I had rather enough of those features with speaking animals. Some like ‘Finding Nemo’ were great, some were pretty good like ‘Madagascar’ but most of them are terribly generic and this one was not an exception. Still, I think it remains a decent animated feature and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10