The ingredients are there to make
something uproarious, especially in the CG - animated realm where superhero business can assume an epic form, but there's a distinctly deflated ambiance to the shenanigans, leaving the picture serious eye - candy on the prowl for belly laughs it infuriatingly never finds.
And as her youngest daughter processes all these contradictions, an exercise in family navel - gazing becomes
something more meta — less about the stories themselves than about the often
uproarious ways in which people tell stories.