The Trumpet of the Swan Reviews
Top CriticAn innocuous family feature that's too little/too late in the fast-moving world of feature animation.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
The only possible audience for this film are young children and their exceedingly bored parents.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Trumpet of the Swan is not just lackluster. It's also lackbeauty, lackhumor and lackquality.
Filmcritic.com
A rushed direct-to-video kiddie flick.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
May hold the attention of the very young, but despite marginal attempts at Disney-style cleverness, the simplistic writing, flat animation and sloppy direction will leave adults bored.
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| Original Score: D
Reeling Reviews
"Trumpet of the Swan" features flat background art, some poor sound syncing and insipid, sugary songs.
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| Original Score: C-
A bland, well-meaning mishmash that never coheres into a dramatic whole.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Passable animation for the younger members of the family, but the movie never finds its own voice.
Features charmless songs, junky animation, hambone voice talent.
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| Original Score: D
Film Journal International
An unmemorable feature-length cartoon destined for a quick trip to video shelves.
The animation is unimaginative and uninspiring.
Though colorful and well-meaning, Trumpet of the Swan collapses as an emotional experience, its restless script unable to build a resonance of feeling that can lift the audience collectively.
IFilm
These people are responsible for lots of those bad, bland '80s Disney features like The Fox and the Hound. Now, their generic, cheap, animation style has murdered another beautiful E.B. White novel.
