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The Tale of Despereaux videos
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Boldo The Brave
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Fighting the Cat
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Rat in the Soup
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Tales of Chivalry
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Apology Gone Bad
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Mousetrap Gauntlet
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Kidnapping the Princess
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Protecting the Princess
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Despereaux, The Fearless
The Tale of Despereaux: Official Clip - Despereaux vs. Botticelli
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Movie Info
Once a thriving place of sunshine and delicious soup, the faraway kingdom of Dor has fallen into sadness. An accident leaves the king brokenhearted; the sunshine fades, and the soup disappears Into this world is born Despereaux (Matthew Broderick), a book-loving mouse and friend to Princess Pea (Emma Watson). When Pea is kidnapped, Despereaux must find a knight's brave heart within his tiny body and rescue his friend.
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Rating: G
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Genre: Kids & family, Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
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Original Language: English
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Director: Rob Stevenhagen, Sam Fell
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Producer: Gary Ross, Allison Thomas
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Writer: Gary Ross, Will McRobb, Chris Viscardi
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Universal Pictures
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Production Co: Larger Than Life
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Critic Reviews for The Tale of Despereaux
Audience Reviews for The Tale of Despereaux
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Good animation, but a boring and unintellegent story. Really not very good, a better tale for a straight to DVD movie.
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This is a very sweet and beautifully animated movie. I thought all the characters were memorable, and the story was very good and charming. I've read some reviews where people say that this movie is too dark and boring, but this is not true in my opinion. Animated movies don't need to be all pink and happy in order to be good, sadly it has become a common standard for people to expect this. I really liked this movie.
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a visually wonderful film for familys and kids. full of wonderful charecters here and there and the animatin is good looking. very imaginable and creative. B+
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Good animation, but a boring and unintellegent story. Really not very good, a better tale for a straight to DVD movie.
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