Eh...
When I first watched this movie, I was in fourth grade and I'll admit, I loved it. It had a great environmental message and some good original songs to help move along the plot. However, now that I'm in 8th grade, I realize its cons outweigh its pros, but I still don't think its a terrible movie.Bad qualities:
The animation is less than impressive for something from the same year as Madagascar 3, Brave, and Wreck-it-Ralph.
The scene where the monkey envisions various how to murder the parrot with a chainsaw and other weapons is extremely disturbing.
It rips off elements of other animated films: the big cat's father dying and then coming back as a ghost to deliver important messages to his son is too much like The Lion King, as are the evil hyenas. The concept of a parrot raised as a pet being dumped in the wild not knowing how to fly is a lot like Rio.
THE PARROT HAS TEETH.
Good qualities:
It has a positive environmental message that isn't "humans are evil" (which is the case in Animals United).
The original songs are mostly pretty good, my favorite being "Delhi Safari", which the jungle animals use to persuade Alex the parrot to join them on their quest. It also gets a reprise.
So yeah, I wouldn't really recommend this movie, but overall I don't think its an absolute abomination. Some effort certainly feels put into it at least.
score 5/10
janevicsimonp 13 May 2018
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4164268/36033
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