A good movie

While, at least for some time, Pixar was always focusing on making the highest quality of CGI animated features, not only from a technical point of view but also storywise, Dreamworks never had such ambitions as they produced more features than Pixar and always with an obvious commercial purpose. As a result, their trackrecord as been pretty much spotty with a few bonafide hits (‘Shrek’, ‘Madagascar’, ‘How to train your dragon’) and a lot of misfires. Eventually, this movie definitely belonged to the 2nd group as it didn’t get much love but, personally, I have to admit it, I really had a weak spot for this flick. Of course, the story is actually not really amazing, there was no depth whatsoever but I thought it was still a fun animated feature. Apparently, it is based on a syndicated comic strip which I don’t really know and, pretty much like ‘Garfield’, it was a rather difficult task to move from those short little stories to a full length feature. At the end of the day, they focused mostly on the characters which were pretty funny and not so much on the criticism on our consumerist society. Still, even though it is nothing amazing, I thought it was pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10