Thanks, Mac. You don't know how long I tried to come up with something better. I just put it down that a bad film deserved a (really) bad pun!
Yep, Sigourney sounded bored, and almost like she was just making it up! The film wrnt all over the place, and basically was about that rat character and not really about Despereaux at all. And what was that magic vegetable character thing all about? It was just a lot of everything and nothing of anything, with strange casting choices, stranger directorial choices, a bad script, ugh...it was just a weird, non-focused film that didn't make the most of any of its situations or characters. Some of the character animation was good at times, but nothing seemed to connect with their surroundings, and the bit-mapped look took away from some of the genuinely nice designs.
I noted Sylvain Chomet's name in the credits as a character designer: remember that he was going to make it as a traditional film until it was switched to CG. That's when he left, also down to some screenplay issues he had, and its not only easy to see why he left (for The Illusionist), but interesting to think of what might have been if he had stayed and been able to rework it as a classic animated film.
ANYWAY...back to Despicable Me, which by all accounts is a much better outing for Universal. I'm liking how they seem to have found their feet with off-beat fare like Coraline and 9, and now with their partnership on this film it looks like they may well finally make good on their many failed attempts to become an animation player.
" Make that THREE titans.
