An average movie

In my opinion, the problem with such flicks is how much slack should you give to a movie because it is a family feature? I mean, my 6 years old daughter seemed to enjoy it but does it mean it was actually any good? I don’t know, personally, I really had a hard time to care about the whole thing. Apparently, it is an adaptation of a very famous children book but I’m not familiar with this book, to be honest. I seriously hope that the book has a better storyline because I thought the plot was pretty inane. The fact that I always had a hard time with taking animals didn't help either, I'm afraid. I mean, make a movie with human-beings, make a movie about animals but don’t make a movie about animals acting like human beings, please! Furthermore, they made a big deal of the fact that Dakota Fanning (still playing young girls back then) was in it but she hardly does anything during the whole thing. The main characters were therefore the animals with a star cast for the dubbing (Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates, Robert, Thomas Haden Church, André Benjamin). It is really something of our time to have such big stars coming along just to give a voice-over for a spider, a horse or whatever. I’m probably just too cynical for this kind of features but a while back, they made a movie called ‘Babe’, it was nothing amazing but it was still a decent family feature, and this movie was just way too similar, only more boring and less interesting. To conclude, even though it is nothing awful whatsoever, it remains a rather average family flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you have to entertain some very young children.

5/10