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"talking animals" means animals that can speak and communicate with humans or other animals using words and language.
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Hearing a lot of poorly voice acted lines from every merchant, child, and
talking animal in the game doesn't add much value to the game.
There is clearly a space for high concept family comedies
featuring talking animals and some humans looking like they'd rather be anywhere else doing anything else.
After all, this is an animated film
about talking animals, the most common kind of animated film there is.
My kids saw the trailer and was super excited to see the movie, because let's face it, what kid doesn't like cute and
furry talking animals?
And I still don't think of them in any religious context, just adventure stories
with talking animals.
If you feel I'm overthinking and analyzing what is only meant to be a cute
talking animal movie for children, welcome to film criticism and please hang up your kid gloves.
And this is a reasonably safe family film, 2 provided you have a talk with the kiddies and explain to them that, despite all the things they see on movies, their mommy or daddy is not going to suddenly disappear forever and be replaced
by talking animals.
Verdict: 4 Stars In the spirit of other great
talking animal books like The Jungle Book or Dr. Doolittle, Anderson's work makes you simply forget that these are animals.
Stories with an element of fantasy,
from talking animals to fairies, will spark their imagination, as will books about distant times and places.
Then again, if personality is what you're in the market for, maybe you shouldn't be considering a lip - synched
talking animal comedy in the first place.
But Coco certainly stands out in the sea of
talking animal buddy comedies / rescue adventures that most major studio animated features can be categorized as.
The film's closest kin in the world of
CG talking animal «toons may be the inventive western Rango, whose throwback noir vibes it slightly echoes.
Imagine a world without people
where talking animals roam the dangerous and desolate landscape in search of purpose and being.
The cleverness and the charm of the world means we sometimes forget we're
watching talking animals, which is a major attraction of this unique and sometimes hilarious animated feature.
The harmless Doctor Dolittle's menagerie of
cute talking animals should delight the young «uns, but the delightful - to - all - ages Babe this certainly isn't — a fact that is made all too painfully obvious when a charmless talking pig arrives on the scene.
In the spirit of other
great talking animal books like The Jungle Book or Dr. Doolittle, Anderson's work makes you simply forget that these are animals.
A California Native, Tiffani Collins grew up in the Sierra Mountains surrounded by dogs, cats, rats, alligator lizards, iguanas, parakeets, horny toads, horses, goats, king snakes, ferrets, chickens, fish, ponies, and hamsters — is it any wonder she went on to be a Veterinary Technician or to write about
talking animal people?
What starts out as a strained, silly and strictly - for - the - chitlins collection of
talking animal shenanigans redeems itself through sheer force of personality.
But stretching the aesthetic elements, the toddler - hand - holding relationship that will grow between you and the Majin, or those
damn talking animals will wear extremely thin.
Families with canines are better off staying home and having an old - fashioned backyard frolic than trotting out to see Show Dogs, a panting, poorly trained entry in the live - action /
talking animal genre that for once makes viewers long for the candy - colored, half - witted professionalism of third - tier Pixar - knockoff animation.
And why even bother with fakey
CGI talking animals, when the real thing (or some approximation thereof) has so much potential to tug at the emotions of us humans?
This is not your run - of - the -
mill talking animals picture, so throw out any comparisons you may be tempted to make to films like DreamWorks» Madagascar, Blue Sky's Ice Age, and Disney's own dud Chicken Little.
«Zootopia» (Walt Disney Studios) Technically more of a menagerie than an ensemble, the cast of «Zootopia» deserves credit for turning yet another feel - good animated movie about
talking animals into one of the most insightfully relevant, yet accessible, stories of the year.
The Star trailer promises an inventive take on the story of the first Christmas, as told by a cast of
animated talking animals.
Babe
proved talking animal films can work, but Racing Stripes only goes to show that without a good story and rich characterizations, you'll end up like the racehorses — running around in circles.
That's kind of an underperformer showing that kids won't go for just anything even
if talking animal movies likely aren't going away anytime soon.
Logline: A life - action take on the continuing adventures of an adult Christopher Robin and the
classic talking animals of Hundred Acre Wood.
They discuss the ratings system and whether PG - 13 movies should warn about Santa Claus spoilers before throwing down a Fat Guy Five about
good talking animal movies and handing down some DVD and Blu - ray picks.
Ice Age: The Meltdown will probably fit the bill for the intended audience of young children, most of whom just enjoy seeing
funny talking animals and lots of silly, high - energy slapstick.
I see the irony in
saying talking animals don't feel natural but when compared to efforts like Zootropolis or another French production like Ernest and Celestine then the weaknesses of The Jungle Bunch really start to show.
Plenty in this week's preview of upcoming films, including the Nine Lives trailer, a Deadpool clip, Zoolander 2 and more... Nine Lives
Trailer Talking animal film alert!