An average movie

I have always been a huge fan of those clay-animated features by Aardman so I was really eager to check this flick. For once, they dropped the clay and opted for the first time for CGI (the 2nd and last one so far was ‘Arthur Christmas’). Apparently, they made this choice because there were too many water scenes which would be too difficult to handle with clay. However, even though the expectations were pretty high, it was eventually a flop when it was released. Personally, I had mixed feelings about the whole thing. I mean, I thought it looked really good, which was something you should expect from Aardman but the story and the characters were not really amazing. There was definitely some funny bits and the bad guy was really cool (I also liked ‘Le Frog’) but I thought that the main character was pretty underwhelming, especially if you compare him to the awesome and charismatic Wallace and Gromit. There was also some overkill visually. I don’t know, maybe I should give it another shot and watch in English this time (the first time, I watched it in Dutch with the kids). Still, to conclude, even though it was slightly disappointing, it remains a decent animated flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10