Review of The Tale of Despereaux (2008) by Gordonm. — 25 Dec 2008
Terrible. I saw this with the family prior to christmas day, and even the 7 year old kids didn't like this. The story was filled with more holes and cracks then the wartorn streets of Baghdad. The annoying voice over of Sigonry Weaver constantly manages to detach the audience from any illusion of disbelief, she also manages to confuse the audience by saying that mice and rats can't talk, then having a movie about Mice and Rats constantly arguing and lamenting over the loss of soup.
The worst thing about this movie though, the one thing that managed to beat the horrible animation, disgusting shrek looking peasents, unlikeable characters, the drawn out plot, the over sensual voice acting from emma watson(even through voice acting she was suggestive) and the horrible, horrible cliched dialouge was the morals it might spread to children.
The morals this movie manages to be preach might actually be the opposite of what Mufasa was trying to teach in "The Lion King". Desperaux goes out of his way to get into trouble to prove he is brave, I only hope children realize this movie is as terrible as I know it is and ignore it all together.
It gets two points because It has a lot famous voice actors and that should give it SOME points.
This review of The Tale of Despereaux (2008) was written by Gordonm. on 25 Dec 2008.
The Tale of Despereaux has generally received mixed reviews.
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