The Tale of DespereauxRunning Time: 83 minutes
Summary: The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
Review: I love mice. I think they are totally adorable, and the only thing more adorable than a real mouse is a cartoon one, and the only thing more adorable than a cartoon mouse is one with gigantic ears who thinks that he is a knight.
The star of this movie is Desperaux, a tiny mouse (even by mouse standards) who never learnt the cowering and skittering qualities that a good mouse must have. Desperaux tasks himself with giving hope and happiness back to the beautiful princess of the Kingdom of Dor. Right from the beginning you are rooting for this underdog to overcome his challenges and to rise to success.
The movie is funny and cute, a great family movie, and although it lacks the sort of humor that make Finding Nemo and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs so good. It makes up for it with its wholesome and hearty story.
The funny thing about this movie is that the story is about the characters conquering their challenges and that there is more to a person (or mouse)than meets the eye, it also really enforces stereotypes! Rats are deciveing and disgusting. Mice are timid and skittish. There are are two exceptions to these rules but at the end of the movie, the two exceptions remain. None of the characters changed or grew... For such a warm and fuzzy ending, I was surprised that in the end, the moral of the story was that "People don't change. Just accept it."
Best Quote: Narrator - "Of course, destiny is a funny thing. We go out to meet it and we don't always know that we are."
Rating: 7 nests out of 10
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