THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (2008) ** The plot's fairly complex for a kids' film, I nodded off for a few seconds and had to catch up. That says a lot of it: it's worth chasing but not compelling, to me anyway, there's a lot of thought went into it, and it's fun to watch that but nothing all that amazing comes out. It looks cool. There are a lot of well known actors behind the voices, and at some point you're bound to wish that instead of animation they just had the actors acting it out in paper mache rat and cat and mouse suits. The closing credits are really cool, in an unusual way: all of these very ethnic names from varied cultures-cultures that you can't quite identify and people you'd never heard of...it must have been fun, that's what I think.
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