The Tale of Despereaux2008
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
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Cast
as Despereaux
as Princess Pea
as Roscuro
as Mig
as Botticelli
as Antoinette
as Furlough
as Principal
as Gregory
as Inquisitor
as Hovis
as Boldo
as Andre
as Lester
as Pietro
as Narrator, The Narrator
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Critic Reviews for The Tale of Despereaux
All Critics (109) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (48) | DVD (3)
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.
Audience Reviews for The Tale of Despereaux
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.

Super Reviewer
Though i havent read the book and i still care not to, i have to say the movie was pretty good

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The Tale of Despereaux Quotes
Despereaux: | "No...I'm a gentlemen." |
Despereaux: | No... I'm a gentlemen. |