The following is a movie review “Smallfoot” by Marc Primo.
Release date: September 28, 2018 (United States)
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Production companies: Warner Animation Group, Zaftig Films
Producers: Bonne Radford, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
“There’s been a big myth-understanding,” is the punny tagline by the Warner Animation Group that serves as a prelude to the wit on display in this latest offering from director Karey Kirkpatrick.
A veteran in the kids-to-adolescent feature film realm, Kirkpatrick’s credits include the high-grossing likes of James and the Giant Peach, Chicken Run, and The Spiderwick Chronicles.
Smallfoot tells the story of a precocious young yeti who befriends a human, changing the perception of his community of life as they know it, and making them realize that there is a whole new world beyond their snowy borders that they never knew existed.
With voice talent duties provided by an ensemble cast featuring Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, LeBron James, and Danny DeVito, to name a few, Smallfoot is a spirited computer-rendered musical sprinkled with humor in all the right places that will appeal to both the young and young at heart.
More than just eye candy and occasional slapstick, the film also imparts a timely message about acceptance and embracing the unknown, illustrated by our hero yeti taking a leap of faith and descending their mountain abode below the clouds against the wishes of the elders, if only to showcase the benefits of stepping out of one’s comfort zone.
Overall, Smallfoot is a light and entertaining yarn with impressive animation and writing, ho-hum musical numbers, and wears its heart on its sleeve. And while it might not be Pixar-caliber stuff, there is still plenty on offer to keep parents, teens, tweens, and toddlers entertained throughout its hour and a half-long running time.
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