Hopper et le hamster des ténèbres

Highly derivative homage to the adventure genre with little to offer in the way of originality, even if I cannot fault the very, VERY family friendly message.

You've seen this kind of low profile animated adventure before but though they painted this by number, they kept the colors impeccable inside the lines.

The animation is better than the script has a right to be with impressive textures in both the cuddly fur and smoother surfaces and a bunch of amazing set pieces with some super concepts worked in, especially a race of strangely geometric pigs and a formidable final boss.

Yes it feels often like it should have been a videogame instead of a movie but I take a guilty pleasure in the central relationship; the two leads have a cute dynamic of a protagonist with potential lead to greatness by a deuteragonist who might have been able to do it all by herself if she had the puzzle skills for it.

Cannot fault the tortoise character either for balancing things out.

I did not care for the skunk spray thing depicted more like flatulence. It's a liquid, people.