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Critics Consensus: Despite its striking visuals, The Tale of Despereaux as a story feels familiar and unimaginative.
Critic Consensus: Despite its striking visuals, The Tale of Despereaux as a story feels familiar and unimaginative.
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It just tries to take a little bit from some of the things we've seen over the past few years that have worked to make this work and it's just desperate and it doesn't work.
It's like Ratatouille meets Upstairs Downstairs to go sort of cross-generational but it didn't work really on any level.
. The plot is too convoluted and there are too many characters to keep track of.
[The directors] can't quite locate a core of buoyant energy in the film as a whole.
The Tale of Despereaux may not be a classic, but it still has a lot of class.
Despereaux is a little too desperate to be loved.
With its quaint fairy tale look and multilayered storytelling style, The Tale of Despereaux offers a refreshing change of pace from the usual computer-animated movies.
Certainly bears a superficial resemblance to Ratatouille, but it's a better film in several ways.
It amounts to less than the sum of its artfully conceived parts but remains a nice and visually interesting film.
To gegonos oti sto eikosalepto mporei na se riksei se bathy ypno, mporei na einai kai to kalytero kamoyflarisma aytoy toy anapanteha anepeisodiakoy ki anyperblita baretoy kinoymenoy ap' ta shediastika grafeia tis Universal Animation, poy den ehei kan to t
The film looks great and the story is interesting enough for adults. It may be a little too complex and intense for young children.
Bland, over-stuffed, chaotic and ultimately underwhelming for both kids and adults.
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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Oh my goodness gracious! They ruined such an amazing story with this movie. I love the book, "The Tale of Desperaux". It was exciting, funny, fresh, and original. You can easily see how much they tried to honor the source material but they easily failed at every chance they got. The story is about a fearless mouse named Desperaux who has exceptionally large ears and a big taste for adventure. He live in a castle and a has crush on the princess, who is voiced by Emma Watson of "Harry Potter" fame. Thats one of the very few good things about the film. I don't want to give too much away about the story. Read the book for more. To me, the animation was detailed and good-looking but was unoriginal. Its like they tried to mix Pixar with a Da Vinci painting! The voice acting was decent but not that pleasing. They've could've done a much better job with casting Desperaux. The most annoying thing about the film was Sigourney Weaver's freaking narration! It was poorly written and made me want to perform hari kari on myself. They did not honor the source material, they raped it! They severely raped a wonderful tale with this. They failed to make it exciting like the book. This is sure to bore children to sleep. They also failed to add intereting humor. What kind of G-Rated animated movie contains no humor? There were like only two jokes in this. None of them made me laugh. I'd rather look at a pile of horse droppings for the entire film's runtime. If you plan to see this, read the book first. If you end up giving this a watch, you'll be saying "Forget this movie! The book was so much better!" when it ends. It sucks so bad, I could not make it to the end, folks.
Though i havent read the book and i still care not to, i have to say the movie was pretty good
the book was excellent. it was really sad and depressing and great. the movie was crap. its not anything like the book. everything that was great about the book they took out in the movie. this was a major disapointment. F
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