A good movie

To be honest, I really had no idea what to expect from this flick. Indeed, nowadays, the market for CGI animated features is pretty much saturated and it didn’t seem to be the best gamble for a director like Gore Verbinski to experiment with this genre when the competition was already pretty intense. Eventually, it was actually pretty successful and it even won the Academy Award for the Best Animated Film (there was no Pixar feature nominated so that could explain a lot). Personally, I thought it was indeed pretty good and I was above all impressed by the animation. Indeed, wow ! This was a really gorgeous animated picture. Only for this, it was worth watching it and, in my opinion, it looked much better than all those crappy 3D animated movies I have seen in 2010 or ever since. Unfortunately, the story was not that great at all but it was entertaining enough and I still laughed a couple of times. The point is that they had this great main character, a pretty cool setting but that’s it, they didn’t manage to develop it properly and the end-result was therefore slightly underwhelming. Still, I had a good time watching this, it looked great and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10