Animal Crackers
Year: 2017
Genre: Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Family
Studio: Blue Dream Studios, Beijing Wen Hua Dong Run Investment, China Film Group Corporation, Odin's Eye Entertainment, Landmark Asia Holdings, Generalitat Valenciana
Director: Tony Bancroft, Scott Christian Sava, Jaime Maestro
Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Lydia Rose Taylor, Ian McKellen, Sylvester Stallone, Danny DeVito
Crew: Carter Goodrich (Character Designer), Scott Christian Sava (Writer), Tony Bancroft (Director), Scott Christian Sava (Director), Dean Lorey (Writer), Skip Jones (Storyboard Artist)
Runtime: 105 minutes
Release: Jun 23, 2017
IMDb: 6.20/10 by 194 users
Popularity: 2
Country: Australia, China, South Korea, Spain, United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 17,000,000
Revenue: 13,285,512

Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend: probably better for younger audiences. This is a very good example of a family movie that tries to be for the entire family without being too obvious about it. It takes the serious bits and makes them palatable for a younger audience, and takes the magical bits and makes them more complex for older audiences. The voice casting was excellent, they managed to stack the cast with celebrity voice actors (normally a death sentence as they don't all play well together) without me noticing, which is a sign of a good voice actor: that they feel natural in the character. The writing actually seemed to be pretty decent, if formulaic, but I would have preferred a different antagonist scenario. The movie is all about family, born or chosen, and how great it is to be together, but both Mr. Woodley and Horatio embody the opposite of that so while it makes sense from a literary standpoint, it didn't feel intuitive for this movie. A scenario where it is all about working together to overcome someone / something (like a chief investor in the circus or a rival circus) would have been preferable, but both story lines were resolved in the expected manner. This isn't going to be a deep movie, but it was certainly fun to (mostly) turn my brain of for a bit and enjoy it.