A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

Falls several sea miles of open water behind Pixar's Finding Nemo.

It seems guaranteed to infuriate anyone over seven.

Turtly disappointing, turtly sanctimonious in its eco message, and turtly derived from Finding Nemo.

The kid-flick charm of early reels, narrated with a folksy rasp by John Hurt, gives way to a ponderous eco-fable.

The characters are thin, the dialogue is bland and the animation is plasticky, though the 3D effects are sometimes interesting in a lurid, sub-Pixar fashion.

Five star entertainment for the under-tens, deduct two stars for everyone else.

The color palette and the movement of the characters also serve as an attraction for the little ones, who are undoubtedly destined for The Adventures of Sammy, but their companions can also enjoy it. [Full review in Spanish]

Annoyingly cute is one way to describe this film; sickly sweet is another.

far too reminiscent of films that have gone before it and suffers from being overly didactic about its environmental themes.

Here, director and co-writer Ben Stassen shows as much contempt for characterisation as he did with his previous feeble effort, the offensively banal insect adventure Fly Me to the Moon.