The promisingly amusing trailer makes way for a full-length animation that is very simple in terms of narrative, often too talky for its own good and is amiable enough but rarely rises above being pleasant. In fact, plot-wise it is so threadbare that it really does not require the overlong scenes of exposition that fail to ignite, and much more could have been made of the visual and verbal humour inherent in the situation. Aside from a couple of moments of unexpectedly ripe innuendo, there is little here that we haven not already seen in films like Toy Story (the street chase) and Despicable Me (the big rocket). Alec Baldwin certainly knows how to deliver a line, but beyond that the film is mostly adequate.
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