An average movie

It seems that Aardman can’t manage to catch a break. Indeed, except for Wallace & Gromit, their other productions don’t seem to be really successful and this flick was unfortunately not an exception. Still, since I have always been a fan of their work, above all of their stop-motion features, I was really eager to check it out. Eventually, I thought it was actually rather disappointing. Of course, the animation was, as usual, amazing, no doubt about it, but I had a hard time to care about the story and the characters. I don’t know, it definitely had some potential but I thought that it was nothing really mind-blowing. I have to admit it, I have seen it in Dutch so it might be more fun in the original English so I will see the original version in the near future to make up my mind for good but I doubt the story would become suddenly great. Indeed, the Queen Victoria was a rather weak villain and it seems that they can’t move on from Wallace & Gromit. Indeed, the Captain was again another clueless loser, pretty much like Wallace and the Ape, who was pretty awesome, was another mute animal much more intelligent than the average ape, pretty much like Gromit. Still, even though it was slightly disappointing, I still think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10