Review - The Tale Of Despereaux
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX [G]
review by Kilian Melloy
As far a animated pictures about brave little mice go, you can’t do better than The Tale Of Despereaux. But the film, being a curious cross-section of narrative complexity and top-flight CGI, may be a bit too complicated for little kids. Adults, on the other hand, are likely to enjoy the movie’s action-adventure heroics and dark palette of color and mood–not to mention its sense of humor.
“The Tale Of Despereaux,” based on a book by Kate DeCamillo, is a modern fairy tale set in an appropriately vague place (a kingdom where soup is the highest culinary art and everyone has British accents) and time (the Middle Ages, more or less; an age of three-masted sailing ships and talking rodents). The instructional subtext of the tale has to do with life’s difficult, complex emotional states: how grief can unhinge reasonable people, how forgiveness can [...]
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