Callan
Brunker makes his directorial debut with this sci-fi CGI animated feature
starring the voices and personalities of The Mummy's Brendan Fraser, Sarah
Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, George Lopez, The one and only William Shatner,
and Glee's Jane Lynch among others. You would think with that amount of A
and B grade star power you might have a pretty decent flick. You would
think, not so much this time around though. It possess an original and intriguing
concept, but again, fails to deliver on all of its potential. What could
have been a hilarious parody of itself and other fantasy fare inside of a fun
kid flick, reduces itself to a bland and predictable, unfunny, cartoon feature
that stretches itself longer than the material provided. It achieves
some briefly cute moments, but overall, it just doesn't come together as it
should. The paychecks were apparently bigger than the story and the talent
who received them. You can blame the script and story, but its the
actors that flesh it out and the good ones, the genuinely good ones, can make
even the worst script digestible. Now this is not a complete fail, my
kids, four and seven, enjoyed it and watched it all the way through which is
worth some kudos but as an adult, in all honesty, it was a tough 89 minutes.
1 out of 3 Kernels: it appears that making a solid film might have been alien
to this new director, get it, alien, hey that line was funnier than most of the
schtick in this movie.
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