Day: September 28, 2017

Director: Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland

Writer: Nicholas Stoller (Screenplay)

Starring: (Voice Talents) Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Anton Starkman, Keegan-Michael Key

 

Plot: Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby.

 

There may be spoilers the rest of the review

 

Verdict: Typical Childish Animation

 

Story: Storks starts as we learn storks used to deliver babies before they moved into the main stream delivery business. Junior is the known as the best delivery stork and is about to get a promotion of Hunter as we learn why the storks stopped delivery babies is because they lost an address for a human and adopted her Tulip. She is turning 18 and the Hunter wants her out of the business and to enter her back in the human world. With the stork problem looking to be solved we move onto meet our human family which is young boy Nate who feels lonely because of his constantly busy real estate agent parents are always working leading him to ask for a baby brother or sister.

Tulip continues to cause trouble by accidentally restarting the baby making machine and she must team up with Junior to clean up the mess. The story turns into an adventure between Junior and Tulip to deliver the baby while also seeing how parents need to look after their children over work.

Storks is an animated film that goes for the low attempts of comedy to give the laughs to the youngest of its audience not making any of the laughs come off for an adult audience. Against the low level of comedy, we do have a film with heart based story as the parents don’t give the time to the child they have and learn they only get one chance to raise their children. The adventure between Tulip and Junior does feel like it got ripped out of the original Ice Age but otherwise this isn’t the most inspiring comedy film.

The characters are very generic with most just wanting to find a way to fit in the world be it from being the popular one of being the one completely out of place. The boss character is always the loudest of the group while the family all works well but doesn’t get enough time for what could be a more important story.

 

Overall: Dull animated comedy that doesn’t give enough time to the heart in the film.

Rating

 

 

The Simpsons Challenge

Season 4

Episode 8 – New Kid on the Block

Couch Gag – This time the sofa falls through the floor.

Plot Synopsis – Bart becomes infatuated with his new neighbor but she is more interested in someone else; Homer is kicked out of a restaurant after eating too much.

What is going on really – We start with the elderly neighbour moving out need Homer to clean up the yard, Homer becomes captured by the idea of an all you can eat restaurant.

Bart and Lisa play into the myth of the house when Bart meets the neighbour Laura Powers and falls in love, her single mother Ruth welcomes Marge as they become friends.

In a desperate attempt to find a babysitter, Bart suggest Laura as Ruth asks Homer to suggests a friend to keep her company. The kids face having a new dinner, while Homer enjoys an all you can eat.

Homer doesn’t fail in the all you can eat but does find himself kicked out the restaurant and wanting justice, while Bart looks to get tips on winning Laura’s heart from Apu, Grandpa Simpson and Homer but when he meets her boyfriend Jimbo Bart gets hit by reality.

Star Character

Bart

Final Thoughts – This episode was written by Conan O’Brien and you can tell because it does feel like the most adult show to date with the subject matter and jokes. I do like this episode because it does feel edgy, has a mature storyline for Bart tackling a first love and a law suit that could explain the against the all you can eat problems.

Rating 5/5