A classic English children's book has American characters shoehorned in, presumably by money men chasing the US market. It was ever thus.
Quirky and amusing production design and good FX can't save this film: it falls into the trap of making everything loud and obnoxious and insults its audience by treating them as short-attention-span idiots.
Arrietty, the Studio Ghibli version of the story, is vastly superior to this nonsense.
Quirky and amusing production design and good FX can't save this film: it falls into the trap of making everything loud and obnoxious and insults its audience by treating them as short-attention-span idiots.
Arrietty, the Studio Ghibli version of the story, is vastly superior to this nonsense.