Also saw the kids cartoon Norm of the North… a movie with an inexplicably big release given how amateurish, sad, and pathetic it is. It’s a CG kids movie with art and animation sub Toy Story 1 with a nonsense plot and dialog that, even on the low bar of coherence many animated films have, is particularly dumb.
A real estate mogul wants to build homes in the Arctic and Norm – a polar bear who speaks “human” – must travel to NYC to stop him? Convince him its a bad idea? Convince Americans its a bad idea? I dunno. He brings him with three lemmings who are totally not trying to be like the Minions, y’all. Totally not like the minions, nope. Their primary source of comedy is they can get squished and live and they fart a lot and piss on things for a lot more screen time than one would consider appropriate. Also the movie has a lot of shit jokes because of a seagull. So there’s our level of comedy…
As an aside, the villain’s last name is Green and he’s trying to build Green Homes in the Arctic. But he’s really an evil billionaire trying to dupe people out of their money. So inadvertently (maybe?) this movie seems to be implying that all the green energy, green housing, environmentally aware companies should not be trusted because they are just trying to make cash money… so don’t trust them! It’s all a scam!
Anyhow, this is a terrible, god awful waste of time and a cynical cash grab at kids via the Minions that, based on the lack of any kind of laughter from the disturbingly large crowd I was in, won’t work. Skip this. It’s as bad as it looks.
Score: 52