Cute enough little movie about a snail who ingests the fuel of some souped-up cars and then realizes his ultimate dream -- racing in the Indy 500.
This is by-the-numbers animation, with the usual canned lessons about being OK with who you are and following your dreams. These aren't bad lessons for kids to hear, but they're also not especially sincere. The animation itself is nothing special and the voice work is solid if unmemorable -- Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giammati and Samuel L. Jackson do the bulk of the work. But I was sitting next to my four year old son in the movie theatre (this was only the second movie he'd seen in a theatre) watching his face, and the look on it was enough to convince me that this was the best movie ever.
Grade: B
This is by-the-numbers animation, with the usual canned lessons about being OK with who you are and following your dreams. These aren't bad lessons for kids to hear, but they're also not especially sincere. The animation itself is nothing special and the voice work is solid if unmemorable -- Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giammati and Samuel L. Jackson do the bulk of the work. But I was sitting next to my four year old son in the movie theatre (this was only the second movie he'd seen in a theatre) watching his face, and the look on it was enough to convince me that this was the best movie ever.
Grade: B