Punished_Blinx posted... Yeah it's really weird.
Like I'm gonna watch and enjoy this with my 3 year old daughter this weekend. I know now it's probably not going to be anything special outside of the easter eggs and references. But that's overall okay.
But people trying to say that critics are unfair towards animated movies or that they shouldn't expect to be good is so utterly baffling to me. There are plenty of really good movies focused for kids based on all sorts of properties these days. Shaun the Sheep was a great movie and it didn't even have any spoken dialogue! Both my daughter and I love it!
It's not a deep story of character development these kids movies need most of the time. The universal thing that beloved kids movies have is heart. That's usually the thing Illumination doesn't quite get in my experience and I'll see for myself if there's anything different here.
The fact that a lot of people decide to go straight for the Oscars when it comes to defending bad movies tells you enough about their media consumption, don't worry about them