The Tale of Despereaux G
Small Mouse. Big Dreams
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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 3, 2015
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Rob Stevenhagen & Sam Fell | |
Screenwriting by | Chris Viscardi, Will McRobb & Gary Ross | |
Composition by | William Ross | |
Produced by | Gary Ross & Allison Thomas | |
Voice: | Matthew Broderick, Emma Watson, Tracey Ullman, Frank Langella, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, Ciarán Hinds, Richard Jenkins, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Robbie Coltrane, Sigourney Weaver & James Nesbitt | |
Executive Production by | Robin Bissell, David Lipman, William Sargent & Ryan Kavanaugh |
Entertainment Reviews:
It begins as all fairy tales should, with a narrator recounting the story of the pastel-hued Kingdom of Dor....Pleasantly immersive, beautifully animated...
New York Times
3 stars out of 5 -- A heartwarming tale of a little mouse that could, DESPEREAUX is a cross between DUMBO and THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Empire
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Scratch a CGI fairytale and you'll find an allegory about class, particularly if rodents are involved.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 4.5/10 --
Bland, over-stuffed, chaotic and ultimately underwhelming for both kids and adults.
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NYC Movie Guru
It's like Ratatouille meets Upstairs Downstairs to go sort of cross-generational but it didn't work really on any level.
At the Movies
It just tries to take a little bit from some of the things we've seen over the past few years that have worked to make this work and it's just desperate and it doesn't work.
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At the Movies
Rating: 3.5/4 --
With its quaint fairy tale look and multilayered storytelling style, The Tale of Despereaux offers a refreshing change of pace from the usual computer-animated movies.
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The Oklahoman
Product Description:
Universal Pictures crafts a whimsical tale of courage using some truly stunning CGI animation in THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX. Based on the award-winning book of the same name, the film features some all-star voice work from the likes of Sigourney Weaver, Dustin Hoffman, and Matthew Broderick. The story begins in the European city of Dor, a picturesque town know for its amazing soup. When the soup-obsessed rat Roscuro (Hoffman) accidentally brings about a tragedy in the royal kingdom, the Dor King falls into mourning, both soup and rats are banned, and the skies turn to gray. Roscuro soon finds himself living in the dank darkness of a place called Rat World. Nearby, in Mouse World, we finally meet our hero, Despereaux (Broderick). Despereaux is an unusually small mouse with some rather over-sized dreams. Despite his small stature, he longs to live a bold and exciting life, and he chafes at the dictums of Mouse World--where mice are taught to live quietly in fear. When Despereaux goes so far as to befriend the human Princess Pea (Emma Watson), he is booted from Mouse World down into the miseries of Rat World. There he meets Roscuro, and together the two decide to carry out their own individual quests and right what has been wronged. While Roscuro soon finds himself going astray, Despereaux sticks to his guns--or rather, his sewing-needle sword--and he fights to bring joy and freedom back to the city of Dor.
The film remains pretty faithful to the book, although it does trim down some of the quirkier aspects of the novel. Yet the story is still refreshingly dark in places, and is reminiscent of such classic tales as THE SECRET OF NIMH and WATERSHIP DOWN--smart cartoons that were always about much more than mere cuddly talking animals.
The film remains pretty faithful to the book, although it does trim down some of the quirkier aspects of the novel. Yet the story is still refreshingly dark in places, and is reminiscent of such classic tales as THE SECRET OF NIMH and WATERSHIP DOWN--smart cartoons that were always about much more than mere cuddly talking animals.
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- Sales Rank: 107,275
- UPC: 025192276149
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