When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.
Peter Ramsey's festive animation is fun and frantic but, somewhere amid the boisterous bouncing off chimney pots and skittering across rooftops, logic and substance are lost.
If Cirque du Soleil overdid the Calpol, it would probably look like this.
A curious film.
The audience battles to care or stay awake.
Compare this moderate entertainment to, say, Monsters, Inc., and it really looks feeble.
Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Chris Pine and Isla Fisher all contribute enthusiastic voicework, raising what might have been a tiresome trudge into something pretty festive.
The year¹s most entertaining animation.
A new children's classic.
It’s gorgeously designed, deftly written and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. For child or adult, this is a fantasy to get lost in.
Visuals pop off the screen, the action is absorbing and there are even a few chuckles to be had in this rip roaring modern day fairytale.
Children may well enjoy it, despite the absence of anything that might pass as imaginative sustenance.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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