Joe Dante's last big budget studio feature - I wish he'd have the chance to do a few more but anyways... This has it charms, particularly some excellent animation, but doesn't quite work. Maybe too frantic or something.Maybe the real world is as cartoony as the cartoon world? Too noisy?
The human characters aren't that well defined. Brendan Fraser is an affable lunk and... that's it - a little more character wouldn't have hurt. (When he plays himself at the end, he has a real character... that had a lot of potential.) Ditto Jenna Elfman's exec... she's very undefined. Fraser is never believable as Timothy Dalton's son. Why not have an American actor? There's no real core emotional relationship to anchor it.
I think that's the issue - it lacks chaacter and relationships.
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