Have you seen the ads for this new movie The Nut Job which is about to be dumped into the motion picture no-man's-land that is January released? It's a computer-animated movie about squirrels trying to steal nuts or something.
I'm left thinking, shouldn't squirrels be cuter than that? Squirrels are thought of as inherently cute animals, loveable to anyone who doesn't have a bird feeder. To put it another way, rats are seen as squirrels' uncute cousins. They're squirrels without the PR of a big bushy tail. And yet Pixar managed to make them more likeable in Ratatouille.
It seems like animated movies are trying so hard to make in-your-face goofy characters that they don't make something that looks good on the screen. It's been all downhill since that little...whatever it was... in The Lion King. Look, the world doesn't need more aggressive manic characters. Especially with Kevin Hart starting up his movie career.
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