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Dross. I'd rather die than watch it again.
Okay, I'll be a bit more expansive.
The "nice touches" in the animation's background are less detailed and less imaginative than Futurama. In fact, they're marginally less imaginative than a photocopier.
The voice "talent" is exceptionally weak. GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips (a replacement for the UK release) is abysmal as the news reporter. The plot is as bad as it gets - and the excuse that "it's a cartoon" doesn't wash, in the face of The Simpsons, Futurama, Shrek 1 & 2, Toy Story 1 & 2 and, most importantly, Finding Nemo - which did the same job but much, much better a year earlier.
But above all - the one unforgivable thing that I was most worried about - is the racial stereotyping. The white trash golddigger (Angelina Jolie) was poor. The downtrodden ghetto girl (Renee Zellweger - whom I loathe) was straight out of Hollywood Formulaic Character Manual #2. The Rastafarian jellyfish were awful. The Italian Mafiosi sharks were dreadful to the point of laughable. But the worst of the worst - and my number one HATE in films - was Will Smith's "Hey look at me! I'm black! Isn't that hilarious?". He does it in every frickin' film, although not to the extent of the abominable Martin Lawrence (I'd guess he was second choice for the role). Guys - Sydney Poitier refused to take any role which required him to be black. Take a leaf. Pointing out skin colour and the amusing differences between the various races ISN'T emancipation. It's propagation.
Scooping out your brains with a salt-covered ladle, fashioned from the baked remains of your own scrotum is prefereable to this.
Okay, I'll be a bit more expansive.
The "nice touches" in the animation's background are less detailed and less imaginative than Futurama. In fact, they're marginally less imaginative than a photocopier.
The voice "talent" is exceptionally weak. GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips (a replacement for the UK release) is abysmal as the news reporter. The plot is as bad as it gets - and the excuse that "it's a cartoon" doesn't wash, in the face of The Simpsons, Futurama, Shrek 1 & 2, Toy Story 1 & 2 and, most importantly, Finding Nemo - which did the same job but much, much better a year earlier.
But above all - the one unforgivable thing that I was most worried about - is the racial stereotyping. The white trash golddigger (Angelina Jolie) was poor. The downtrodden ghetto girl (Renee Zellweger - whom I loathe) was straight out of Hollywood Formulaic Character Manual #2. The Rastafarian jellyfish were awful. The Italian Mafiosi sharks were dreadful to the point of laughable. But the worst of the worst - and my number one HATE in films - was Will Smith's "Hey look at me! I'm black! Isn't that hilarious?". He does it in every frickin' film, although not to the extent of the abominable Martin Lawrence (I'd guess he was second choice for the role). Guys - Sydney Poitier refused to take any role which required him to be black. Take a leaf. Pointing out skin colour and the amusing differences between the various races ISN'T emancipation. It's propagation.
Scooping out your brains with a salt-covered ladle, fashioned from the baked remains of your own scrotum is prefereable to this.
I'll be sure to stear clear!
