A freak accident might just help an everyday garden snail achieve his biggest dream: winning the Indy 500.
With a bright production design enlivened by strong 3D, and a simple, likeable story about self-actualisation, it’s a slow but sure winner.
The plot has a lot in common with Cars, but it’s cheerful, nicely animated and child-friendly, provided your child is realistic about the relationship between crows and snails.
For a $135 million movie, Turbo is charmingly humble.
If you want to see Paul Giamatti as a snail - and who doesn't - you've come to the right place. If you don't, wait for Cloudy 2.
Turbo isn't going to speed into anyone affections like Pixar classics but it's good fun, especially for smaller children, and looks fabulous.
The eye-popping visuals, vivid characterisation and strong voice work, especially by Paul Giamatti as Turbo's whining brother, just about make up for the absurdity of the idea.
It's a strange piece of work, all too clearly modified and cross-bred from earlier movie hits, that never quite gets out of the starting grid.
Even by the infinitely flexible standards of wacky kids' fantasies, the plot makes no sense whatsoever.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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