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Inert animation and generically chipper characters rob Once Upon a Forest of any personality despite its well-intentioned message and critter appeal for very young children.
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It's a good thing this breezy animated adventure lasts only slightly more than 70 minutes. Children will no doubt enjoy its simple tale, but would probably grow restless if it went on for a minute longer. Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It's a good thing this breezy animated adventure lasts only slightly more than 70 minutes. Children will no doubt enjoy its simple tale, but would probably grow restless if it went on for a minute longer.
Jeff Shannon
Respect for nature and the environment is a message that no one would quarrel with, but this is yet another example of a movie that can't or won't differentiate between technology and the use to which it is put. Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Respect for nature and the environment is a message that no one would quarrel with, but this is yet another example of a movie that can't or won't differentiate between technology and the use to which it is put.
Desmond Ryan
The characters are not memorable; the songs are lame and the drawing style is pedestrian. Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
The characters are not memorable; the songs are lame and the drawing style is pedestrian.
Gene Siskel
It contains a dire message: Man is destroying nature and progress is evil. It is hard to know what small children, the film's intended audience, are supposed to do with this idea. Nag their parents about recycling? Work it out in nightmares? Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It contains a dire message: Man is destroying nature and progress is evil. It is hard to know what small children, the film's intended audience, are supposed to do with this idea. Nag their parents about recycling? Work it out in nightmares?
Johanna Steinmetz
While an agreeable enough effort in most respects, pic is a bit dark and somber to be terrifically appealing to kids, and could have used bigger doses of humor and music. Mar 26, 2009
While an agreeable enough effort in most respects, pic is a bit dark and somber to be terrifically appealing to kids, and could have used bigger doses of humor and music.
Todd McCarthy
Makes one long for animals whacking each other with sticks of dynamite. Jan 26, 2006
Makes one long for animals whacking each other with sticks of dynamite.
Mark Kermode
A pleasing, sweet primer in caring for our flora and fauna. Jun 6, 2018 | Full Review…
A pleasing, sweet primer in caring for our flora and fauna.
Malcolm Johnson
For all the feeling the drawing instills in the figures, it might be termed inanimation. Dec 6, 2017 | Full Review…
For all the feeling the drawing instills in the figures, it might be termed inanimation.
Quentin Curtis
From the first moments of Once Upon a Forest, there is evidence of high artistic standards. The backgrounds are beautifully detailed, right down to the shading and contours of a tree trunk. Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
From the first moments of Once Upon a Forest, there is evidence of high artistic standards. The backgrounds are beautifully detailed, right down to the shading and contours of a tree trunk.
Candice Russell
Sadly, in common with so many non-Disney cartoons, the standard of the songs is poor and the animation lacks magic. Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Sadly, in common with so many non-Disney cartoons, the standard of the songs is poor and the animation lacks magic.
David Parkinson
While the movie's lip-synchronization leaves much to be desired, the creatures great and small are nicely conceived, the settings a vivid eyeful and the ecology lesson sound. Jun 17, 2014 | Full Review…
While the movie's lip-synchronization leaves much to be desired, the creatures great and small are nicely conceived, the settings a vivid eyeful and the ecology lesson sound.
People Staff
Sounds good in practice but with a plot where very little happens and songs that really shouldn't have been included, sticking the kids in front of David Attenborough sounds much more appealing. Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Sounds good in practice but with a plot where very little happens and songs that really shouldn't have been included, sticking the kids in front of David Attenborough sounds much more appealing.
Kim Newman
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