Oh, how I loved this film. It was this gorgeously filmed, sweet little bedtime story. ...Just lovely and relaxing and makes you put your hands under your chin, while you have this stupid grin on your face, listening to it. If you still have even a smidgen of your inner-child left, it will come alive with this film.
For the old-80's heads out there, Matthew Broderick totally reprises his other 'Mouse' role.
This is quite frankly, the best non-pixar CGI film, I can remember seeing. It's definitely better than Cars.
All the super-cool lushly rendered "people stuff" in the background used by the rodents here, warmed my geeky little heart. I'm a sucker for quality animation and this movie has it in spades.
The Tale of Desperaux, is a fable that contains universally relevant, timeless ideals for everybody.
Now, one of my friends hated this movie, but that's because she's a bit Grinchy.
....Well, that and she's allergic to CGI mice. I do however, agree with her, a little bit about the climax. It could have been better done. It did come off a bit scattered and messy, but that's a small drop in a sea of likable, well-voiced characters and stunning set animation.
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Y'all, this may take The Secret of Nimh's place in my heart as my favorite animated rodent movie. Yes, it even rivals Ratatouille.
A parent and child pair in the nearly empty theater, sat in rapt attention and stayed through-out the credits. Another parent and child left early, however. So, it can be slow for some.
...But for me, it's well deserving of a
.Take the non-fidgety, non-jaded, kids with big imaginations.
PARENTS: Please don't let this become the underrated gem, I think it will be. GO SEE THIS MOVIE!
P.S. If you're familiar with the children's book this is based on, I'd love to hear your opinion.
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I was lent the book a while back before they even announced this was gonna be a movie... tried to read it... and failed miserably. I couldn't stand the book. At all. But I think it was mostly due to its mind-numbingly awful writing style. I think I got about a third of the way through it or so before I had to give it back with a "sorry... I just can't do it." I still have no idea how the book got so much recognition.
And because of that experience, I had a slightly bad taste in my mouth about seeing the movie. So I still haven't done so, regardless of Emma Watson being one of the voices :P .
But I might check it out at some point for two reasons. First, the movie wouldn't have the bad writing style to get through, as it's a film, not a book. And second, the person who lent it to me even agreed that there's not enough material even in the book for it to be a full-fledged movie (it was beyond simplistic... it made me feel like 'See Spot Run' was a syntactical masterpiece in comparison), so I know they had to have added a whole bunch to the film's story to flesh it out (hopefully).
So yeah... there's an opinion from somebody experienced with the book... though not with the movie :) .
@nick
Thank you. The story is still very simple, but pleasantly so, at least in my mind.
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