A fistful of dollars (1964)

	Also Known As: Pour une poignée de dollars, Für eine handvoll Dollar, Per un pugno de dollari, Por un puñado de dólares
	Year of first release: 1964
	Director: Sergio Leone
	Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Mario Brega
	Country: I, E, D
	Genre: Western
	Conditions of visioning: 08.11.2016, Bluray, English version
Synopsis: An anonymous, but deadly man (Eastwood) rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Review: I watched this movies many times since my childhood. This movie did open for me the world of western genre and specifically spaghetti western. Western with humour and with style! The style of Sergio Leone was revolutionary at that time and made his success: large landscape images, close-ups on the characters faces, main character neither good nor bad, adequate cast, amazing music collaboration with Ennio Morricone as composer.  The story has something good and vertuous, to help a woman and her child to meet the father again in freedom without being threatened. And greedy, to extort money from both families in town. SPOILER As usual the story ends in a fair play duel. Gian Maria Volontè plays greatly the both impulsive and intelligent bad guy. Mario Brega completes the bad guys excellent acting. The story wins a lot by having both hero and bad guys as main characters and well cast. The rest of the cast is actually good as well. The villagers helping Clint Eastwood have marking faces that make them friendly. This is also one of the Sergio Leone's signature.  The image is just great! The big landscape images of southern Spain, by Almeria, that we can recognize in several movies of Sergio Leone. The excellent image composition and slow camera movements in the scenes in the village. For me the major quality of Sergio Leone is that image and story are amazingly enhanced by the music by Ennio Morricone. After this amazing success, Clint Eastwood, Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone became legends of cinema. One remarkable add-on in the Bluray is an interview of Christopher Frayling an expert in spaghetti westerns and collectionneur of their posters. Many posters of very different countries are shown as well as the covers of the LPs. This gives another insight in the creativitiy and diversity of that time.
Rating: 9 /10

Le Grand Blond avec une Chaussure Noire (1972)

	Also Known As: Der große Blonde mit dem schwarzen Schuh
	Year of first release: 1972
	Director: Yves Robert (La Guerre des Boutons)
	Actors: Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier (Les Tontons Flingueurs), Jean Rochefort (Lost in La Mancha), Mireille Darc
	Country: F
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 25.12.2016, 42" TV
Synopsis: A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Review: An unforgettable classic French comedy from my youth of watching public television, hard to believe that it is 45 years old thanks to digital conservation and projection of such movies nowadays. The humour ages but the image quality not! Indeed I guess it would be hard for a young audience to laugh at the gags, quite typical of that decade. For me that character of the absentminded violinist (Mr. Nobody in fact) is likeable, so much that a sequel was soon produced in 1974 (Le Retour du Grand Blond), and in fact it is the kind of character Pierre Richard excelled at playing (already in Le Distrait in 1970). But what makes the most fun for me is the rivalry between a stern Jean Rochefort as Secret Services Head and his deputy played by Bernard Blier as nervous as a Wolfoni Brother. This rivalry and the high-tech spy techniques used by both teams put in contrast with the mundane life of the violinist (between toothaches, adultery and an invading best friend) is what makes the comedy work.
Rating: 5 /10

In the Line of Fire (1993)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1993
	Director: Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Air Force One)
	Actors: Clint Eastwood (For a few dollars more, Gran Torino), John Malkovich (R.E.D., Burn after Reading), Rene Russo (Lethal Weapon 3, Ransom)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 21.12.2016, VOD, 42" TV
Synopsis: Frank Horrigan (Eastwood) badly lives with the memory of the assassination of Kennedy that he couldn't prevent as member of the Secret Services. 25 years later a man (Malkovich) contacts him in person and threatens the current President.
Review: Directed by the very Americano-patriotic German citizen Wolfgang Petersen, In the Line of Fire is for me one of the best Thrillers starring Eastwood, in the decade of Heartbreak Ridge (1986) and Absolute Power (1997). OK the movie is very much centered on the Hollywood star that has the best role, gets the girl and saves the day by being an American hero, but if you like the style it is quite nice to watch. What set the movie apart are the back-story of Horrigan and the special relationship between him and the madman: it is not usual to have this bond between a (super-)cop and the bad guy. Also the state of mind of both characters is very well rendered by the respective actors Eastwood and Malkovich, both very natural. The story evolves at the right pace, with the expected amount of tension and conflict between Horrigan and his superiors who don't believe him the threat is real. In this movie Eastwood was starting to play with his age, i.e. the story requires the main character to be at the end of his career even though he then flirts with the 20 years younger Rene Russo. He will continue this way in Space Cowboys, Gran Torino...
Rating: 7 /10

Flic ou Voyou (1979)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1979
	Director: Georges Lautner (Le Professionnel, Le Pacha, Les Tontons Fligueurs)
	Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo (Le Magnifique), Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Michel Galabru
	Country: F
	Genre: Polar, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 19.12.2016, 42" TV
Synopsis: Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz (Belmondo) is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen in the South of France.
Review: It was very interesting to watch this movie by Georges Lautner back to back with his other one Le Pacha thanks to a double-feature on TV. In this movie produced 12 years later, Belmondo replaces Gabin (I remember their meeting in Un Singe en Hiver) in a strikingly similar story: a cop using unorthodox methods to eliminate gangsters. This appears to be a topic dear to Lautner. As much as Le Pacha was adapted to the sober time and style of Gabin, Flic ou Voyou is more in the extravagance of Belmondo and the 70/80's: young commissaire driving sports car and kicking asses, jazzy music (adequately used by Lautner like in Le Pacha), flashy clothes, comedy and impossible romance. Dialogs by Michel Audiard are ever present, even if infinitely more discreet than in Les Tontons Fligueurs. The movie is nice to watch for the cannonball character of Borowitz who doesn't follow many rules, but the whole thing is far too staged and unrealistic to become a classic. In fact there is just too much comedy in it.
Rating: 5 /10

Le Pacha (1967)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1967
	Director: Georges Lautner (Le Professionnel, Flic ou Voyou, Les Tontons Fligueurs)
	Actors: Jean Gabin (Le Cave se rebiffe, La Grande Illusion), Dany Carrel, Jean Gaven, André Pousse (La 7ème compagnie au clair de lune)
	Country: F, I
	Genre: Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 19.12.2016, 42" TV
Synopsis: After a large amount of diamonds is stolen, several gangsters die apparently from the hands of one of them, and Commissaire Joss (Gabin) starts investigating.
Review: As usual for the Christmas holidays I am eager to watch some French movies and I was glad to find out about this Georges Lautner double feature with Flic ou Voyou. Gabin was not that young anymore at the time so the role of a commissioner suits him well. It is great to see him entering the investigation, questioning his friend, getting more and more involved and finally changing his character to the point of devising a plan to have the gangsters exterminate one another. That was an excellent story-writing in the first place and Gabin (and the others) are excellent at giving life to it, and in brilliant color images. The point of view of Joss (a.k.a. The Pacha) is interesting and understandable: almost retired he is fed up with chasing always the same criminals that get away with light sentences. The complicity he has with his boss is also nicely shown, and is definitely at the opposite of how the Police is expected to behave nowadays. One additional element that plays a great role in the pleasure of watch Le Pacha is the soundtrack. Lautner has obviously understood the importance of it, and plays at repeating the same few note every time there is some suspense. That gets into your head. And after a while those few notes become the intro to Serge Gainsbourg's Requiem pour un Con, playing longer and longer until we meet the composer appearing as himself in the movie, leader of the band in which one gangster plays. I loved the meeting of Gabin and Gainsbourg, not interacting or exchanging a word in the movie, and you can see that moment in the picture below this post. A great Polar atmosphere in this old classic that must not be forgotten.
Rating: 8 /10

Les Anges Gardiens (1995)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1995
	Director: Jean-Marie Poiré (Le père Noël est une ordure, L'opération Corned Beef)
	Actors: Gérard Depardieu (36, Quai des Orfevres), Christian Clavier (Les Visiteurs), Eva Grimaldi
	Country: F
	Genre: Comedy, Action
	Conditions of visioning: 18.12.2016, 42" TV
Synopsis: Nightclub owner Antoine Carco (Depardieu) travels to Hong-Kong to rescue the son of a former gangster friend who called him just before dying. There he places the son for a while in the hands of Father Tarain (Clavier).
Review: Director of many French hits I have known in my youth, Jean-Marie Poiré was responsible in 1982 for Le père Noël est une ordure and was hitting the jackpot in the 90's with three successful movies in a raw: L'opération Corned Beef (1991), Les Visiteurs (1993) and Les Anges Gardiens (1995). With those movies he proved to be the king of the French Action Comedy thanks to ultra-dynamic stories, a fast pace well put in images with a nervous editing, with no doubt learned from American 80's examples but adapted in his own style. I hadn't seen the movie in 20 years and was impressed by how the story unfold: it takes some 30 minutes of Action before we first see the second half of the Comedy couple with the character of the Father Tarain (Clavier playing a bit too much like in Les Visiteurs), and some 30 more before we meet the Guardian Angels of the title! But this is not a bad thing, as it spreads new possibilities for humour along the whole movie, and the rhythm doesn't slow down as it does in most other comedies. And if that was not enough to keep you awake, you get to see gorgeous babes like Eva Herzigova in the shortest apparels all along as well. The gags are easy and not very subtle but delivered at such a pace and without slowing down that the whole thing is quite funny. Some details will always make me laugh like the haircut of Clavier with always a spike of hair that can't get brushed. Depardieu and Clavier form a great opposite couple and their respective Angels are deliciously extreme. I am not a big fan of French comedies but I have to admit I like this one tanks to his energetic qualities and maybe some nostalgia.
Rating: 7 /10

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: -
	Actors: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stoney Emshwiller, Piotr Michael
	Country: USA
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: December 2016, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: A 13-episode journey through our Universe hosted by a professional astronomer on board a Ship of the Imagination.
Review: I have never seen the original 1980 Cosmos TV-series hosted by famous astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan, of which this Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a modern version. The host of this revisited version is Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New-York, and he does not hide his reverence for Sagan, while being the appropriate voice and face for a series true to the original but improved with recent discoveries and top-notch special effects. This Documentary is different from the others as it does not simply tell us of scientific discoveries and facts, it tells us a story. The host is on board of a ship of the imagination that allows us travelling with him through space and time to visit distant worlds or the past of our own. A good part of the series teaches us about the life of the authors of the most influential discoveries in maths, physics, chemistry and astronomy, told via rich animated sequences and using guest voices from famous people like Richard Gere, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, Amanda Seyfried, Patrick Steward... Also from the first episode I suspected the producers to have use the same musical key notes as in the movie Contact with Jodie Foster to remind the audience of that experience, while in fact it is the same Hollywood composer Alan Silvestri who is responsible for the excellent soundtrack of the whole series! This unexpected guest-list is probably a courtesy of the unexpected producer of the show: Seth MacFarlane more known as director of Ted, A Million Ways to Die in the West and creator of the Family Guy TV-series among others. It was funny to learn of his interest in science. DeGrasse Tyson says: "We brought the idea for the show to Seth and he brought it to Fox", meaning that he had a strong role in making the series happen. I found Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey very well done, managing efficiently simplification and vulgarization of complex concepts. I found it confused at time but not confusing, I mean that it was always very clear in its explanations but sometimes episodes start trails in too many directions and conclude on only part of them. It could have been made slightly more linear. My perception may have been altered by the unfortunate slicing of the episodes to fit between commercial breaks on American TV, which are far too obvious and detrimental to the fluidity of the story. Beyond that I have nothing to reproach to the series, there are very few small mistakes that I could spots, or elements for which I think a better explanation could have been found. It covers a lot from the Big Bang, the Solar system, Antiquity, Human history and the role that the night sky has had in it since the beginning of mankind. It is interesting to notice that the new series mentions a lot pollution and Global warming, especially in Episodes 7 The Clean Room and 12 The World Set Free while I saw the the summary of the original that it was tackling UFO skepticism and the nuclear world. By contrast Episode 4 A Sky full of Ghosts can make you question reality: is our Universe the inside of a Black Hole? I would strongly recommend this TV-series, or at the very least the first Episode Standing up in the Milky Way acting as an introduction, to any of my friends wondering why I am doing the job I am doing, why do we need to go to Space and why watching the distant stars at all. The series is so good that it renewed a bit my passion for Science and Astronomy, reminding me of the excitement felt when I first read Hubert Reeves' Poussières d'étoiles or Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.  Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is about you and the world you live in: WATCH IT.
Rating: 9 /10

Nocturne animals (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Tom Ford
	Actors: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 12.12.2016, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English version
Synopsis: Susan Morrow owns a art gallery (Adams) and receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Gyllenhaal), a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion on the book. The manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around Tony Hastings (Gyllenhaal) whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. Tony looks for justice helped by ranger Bobby Andes (Shannon). Susan finds herself recalling her first marriage with Edward.
Review: I expected maybe too much from the movie. The story is captivating but has time to time some deep flaws. Indeed several scenes bring a desequilibrium between the parallel stories so that we do not learn much or maybe too much from the present life of Susan Morrow. Actually all the scenes with her present husband (Armie Hammer) sound false. Otherwise the first part of the book settles an oppressing atmosphere even before the crime happens. I would have liked to see Amy Adams also in another mood than terrified or sad. Susan seems to interprete the writing of her ex-husband very personally, but I did not get any indice to understand why and what this brings to her. The end can be interpreted by the viewer in several ways as the ties that bind Susan to Edward are on each story (book and past reality). The open end à la David Lynch is something I like, but it seems not to work well on my emotional level in this case.
Rating: 4 /10

Sully (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: -
	Director: Clint Eastwood
	Actors: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama, Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 28.11.2016, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English with German subtitle
Synopsis: On Thursday 15.01.2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger, nicknamed "Sully" (Hanks) and his co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Eckhart), glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented aviation achievement, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
Review: The story is good for the news and for a shorter movie. Many scenes have been added that nobody on this side of the Atlantic is interest in. Proud of being American. Fight against the bad insurance guys working for Airbus, a European company. All people did a great job for saving these lives so fast! I took the movie as a summary of the events, a kind of reconstitution of the facts. For this it was nice to see.  No added value as a movie. As documentary it is good and especially interesting for the families, and the people involved in the events.
Rating: 4 /10

Arrival (2016)

	Also Known As: Story of your life
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique, Enemy)
	Actors: Amy Adams (Man of Steel), Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legacy, The Avengers), Forest Whitaker (Platoon, Phone Booth, Ghost Dog)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 11.12.2016, Cinemaxx, English version
Synopsis: Mysterious spacecrafts appear one day in several places across the globe. The professor in linguistic Louise Banks (Adams) and Physicist Ian Donnelly (Renner) are brought together by Colonel Weber (Whitaker) to investigate for the US Army. Her abilities for linguistic and communication help the team to make big steps toward the heptapod aliens.
Review: I wanted to watch this movie absolutely because I like the work of Denis Villeneuve since Polytechnique. On top of it for a story that touches me for the insight in the fascinating world of linguistics. Even if there is an apparent collaboration between the linguist and the scientist, of course the first contact can only be done by an expert in communication and languages. The rythm is given by the different meetings of Dr. Louise Banks with the aliens. And everytime something fascinating comes up. The way the language is built, the art of writing, the misunderstandings, the reconciliations, the collaboration between humans, or not. Typical for the modern foreign affairs of the USA (as the movie is from), China and Russia are seen as the most bellicose on Earth, while a large part of the Earth sees the USA in this role. The movie set me up a few years behind when I had this kind of discussions with a linguist. Several dialogues reminded me a lot dialogues I had then. The movie reaches the same status of fascination.  The aliens are finally not human-like! And this is a good cut with regard to many previous movies. After the insect-like alien from Starship troopers, the heptapods without eyes of Arrival. The control of complex gravity fields is not that smooth but looks realistic. The simple micro-gravity is well done. The most impressive special effect for me is the writing form of the aliens.  The acting of Amy Adams is amazing. In her eyes we can feel the passion for grammar, the disturbance of remembering hard times, the fragility of human being. Great! The other roles are very secondary and covered properly. I liked to see again Forest Whitaker. The original version includes also some dialogues in Russian and Chinese. And this makes the movie quite authentic, even if I cannot say whether the Chinese nor the Russian was correct.
Rating: 8 /10

Love and Friendship (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Whit Stillman
	Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevigny, Morfydd Clark
	Country: IRL, F, NL
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 05.12.2016, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English version
Synopsis: In the 1790s, beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon (Beckinsale), who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica (Clark).
Review: Every couple of years British directors feel the need to shoot a story written by Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility. And this year again Jane Austen! When the story is so bad (I know that many people love it), it is not easy to save it. Beckinsale spells each word perfectly for the theater stage, while others just talk normally. This might be a mean to present her as manipulating and false. But to me the complete story and movie sounds false.  Time to time there are absurd dialogues wihch absurdity is enhanced by the context that are taken so seriously that it becomes really funny, but I fear this was not the goal of the director.  Nice try, but failed. It is a pity to see good actresses like Chloe Sevigny in this kind of feature.
Rating: 1 /10

Hell or High water (2016)

	Also Known As: Comancheria
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: David Mackenzie
	Actors: Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
	Country: USA
	Genre: Western, Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 21.11.2016, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English without subtitle
Synopsis: After the death of their mother, the two brothers Tanner (Foster) and Toby (Pine) start a series of hold-ups in West Texas. As almost retired ranger Marcus Hamilton (Bridges) and his deputy Alberto Parker (Birmingham) take the file they quickly notice that only one bank is targetted. Indeed the brothers have to pay back the bank for the house credit.
Review: The story, the location and the action is like in a classical western of the John Wayne times. Instead of horses, the Texan people ride SUVs. The series of hold-ups, the way they hide the cars, the way they talk, the slow and torrid atmosphere sweats from the screen. Therefore good directing. We do not see any horse. This is good not to remind any old western but to settle this western as a modern one. And it is modern. In the sense of time. And the modern idea to present the banks as the ultimate bad guys. Even if it is not explicitly stated (it remains a North American movie!). Even the walk of John Wayne is copied by Jeff Bridges. The scene when the village follows the thieves on the road is like an old western, same photography, same rythm.
Rating: 5 /10

Finding Dory (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E, John Carter), Angus MacLane
	Actors (voices): Ellen DeGeneres (EdTV), Albert Brooks, Ed O'Neill (Married with Children and Modern Family TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Animation
	Conditions of visioning: 14.12.2016, in-flight entertainment system 10" screen
Synopsis: Dori, the fish with short-term memory problem who had helped the clown-fish Marlin finding his son Nemo, has flashbacks about her lost parents and sets on a new adventure to find them.
Review: Unlike for example Toy Story 2 which was bringing more depth to the known story of Toy Story, I found this sequel to Finding Nemo not to bring much to the underwater universe created by the Pixar studios in 2003. It is nice to reunite with our beloved characters, there is enough action to keep you awake and the movie is probably a hit with the kids, but I found it quite flat overall. A story with ups and downs, punctuated by stunts and gags and with as emotional background the lost parents, but missing the mark by a little. My favorite character in the movie, and what saves it for me, is Hank the Heptapus (an Octopus with only seven limbs), escape-artist loner and master of disguise thanks to his camouflage skin. I found that all the scenes he is in immediately got more peps and were more funny and interesting. Luckily we see him a lot. By contrast Marlin and Nemo are pretty much invisible. Finding Dory sadly follows the downwards trend in quality and upwards in uniformization that started when the studio was bought by Disney.
Rating: 5 /10

Money Monster (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Jodie Foster
	Actors: George Clooney (Up in the air, O'Brother where Art Thou?), Julia Roberts (The Pelican Affair, Pretty Woman), Jack O'Connell (300: Rise of an Empire)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 13.12.2016, in-flight entertainment system 10" screen
Synopsis: Lee Gates (Clooney) hosts a TV-show directed by Patty (Roberts) about banking investments. After a glitch in some micro-transactions, he will have to face the real-life consequences of bad investments via the intrusion of Kyle (O'Connell) in his show.
Review: I saw the trailer to the movie some time ago and immediately thought, like after watching the first half hour: what a simple and efficient idea for a movie. Everybody can relate to the poor guy pissed off at banks who apparently spend our money with no consequence for them. And what better person to pass your nerves on than this self-centered rich obnoxious TV-host? Julia Roberts behind the camera completes well this triangle. I loved the first 15 minutes of the movie in which the now director Jodie Foster very efficiently immerses the audience in the story and introduces the characters, their relationships and the stakes with a masterful technique. Then the story keeps on unfolding at a constant pace and delivers new revelations at a constant rate so that we never get bored with the rather simple plot and quasi-unique set. Not revolutionary but a nice modest well-done "financial thriller". Jodie Foster may want to start with such movies after directing some episodes of House of Cards (S2E9) and Orange is the New Black, and before moving on to more ambitious and/or personal projects.
Rating: 7 /10

The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Chris Renaud (Despicable Me 1-2), Yarrow Cheney
	Actors (voices): Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart
	Country: USA
	Genre: Animation, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 14.12.2016, in-flight entertainment system 10" screen
Synopsis: When their masters leave home, the pets gather and live a different life. The daily routine of Max is disturbed when his mistress brings home the invading Duke.
Review: I had seen trailers for this movie and was not really tempted but I gave it a go on a long flight. The cute pets and their behavior, new friendships, searching for your friends across town with obstacles on the way... nothing really original and not even a second level of meaning that could make the movie a minimum interesting for an adult audience. Remains only the cute pets with sometimes unexpected reactions and comic poses. A good-looking Animation film and probably a hit with the kiddies but not a deep trace left in History like a Classic Disney or Pixar of the golden ages.
Rating: 4 /10