Spark: A Space Tail

star wars but animals knockoff

I’m late to this party admittedly. Another piece of work giving an unfair deal by critics not understanding their role in life. As a parent with young kids who really enjoyed the movie I know this movie isn’t the 1-2 star trash so many reviewers felt the need to rate it. Guess what reviewers? I don’t care if you as an adult, possibly without kids or not watching with them, think a family movie is good or not. If a family movie is enjoyable for my kids and possibly makes them a better person then it’s a 4 star at least and worth watching.

An very generic sci-fi animated movie with mediocre animation and voice acting

This is one rare find I found when searching for new movies. Spark: A Space Tail is just a moderate movie to watch. It's not perfect like Zootopia or as great as The Bad Guys. It's just ok. At least one of the real reasons why I wanted to watch that movie is because of that fox girl named Vix I liked the premise of having a Sun Wukong in a space story. The story did not have an absolute tall tale to experience it. As interesting as it sounds having Jason Norman who also played Henry Danger in his starring role in the movie was really good. As for the movie, most of it is ok. The villain in the movie was just another goofball villain with an anticlimactic boss battle Zhong considering the fact obviously it was a show that felt out of budget just like the combat fighting scene. I expected to have this movie to a ton of martial arts in space but this movie did not meet expectations. I hope they make a sequel with the martial arts added.

Yes, the company that made The Nut Job movies had this massive animated flop sandwiched between them. No, it's not very good. If anything, it's worse than either one of those movies, which I never saw as complete trash despite being aware of their glaring flaws. The animation's decent, if lacking when compared to other movies released the same year, - some of which were done on a smaller budget than this film - the voice acting's decent and the villain's over-the-top attitude is amusing and the most fun part of the film. But where it all falls apart is just in how damn uninspired it is, not doing much to differentiate itself from any other cookie cutter family-oriented "Chosen One" plot. At least the Nut Job movies had SOMETHING to guarantee at least a small fanbase. I don't see this film as having any niche appeal at all. The bland designs, forgettable & cliched characters save for the aforementioned villain, whom the animators and voice actors seemed to be having the most fun with, lame jokes and boring action sequence certainly don't help. You know, another animated flop from 2016 had the exact same tagline as this film and I think it's a much better animated space adventure than this one, despite it being unlikely for me to give it a 3.5-star rating had I seen it now rather than in 2017, when I was still fairly enthusiastic. More knowledge of the games helped. At least somebody was trying to make the Ratchet & Clank movie work. Spark, on the other hand, just feels like animators and writers going through the motions with absolutely nothing that makes it stand out. When your most generous comment on A Space Tail - not a necessary pun, the normal spelling would've sufficed in this instance - is "Well, at least it actually looked and felt a little bit more like a movie than Norm of the North", that's really not a good sign regarding the quality of the finished product. One of the worst animated movies of 2016, for sure.

It kept the kids quiet but jeez, the sickly cliches and badly written script was un-stomachable, even for someone who sits through garbage movies constantly ...

It's a very boring plot... There's nothing fun

Damn, I don't believe in hell, do I? I don't like this.

This film moves at a good pace. It takes elements of Wall E and a twist on Star wars but has some original touches. My 6 year old found it thoroughly entertaining. I can really fault the film. But it is a kids film and therefore has to be viewed with cynicism counters set to zero. In my mind it really doesn't deserve the critical panning it has received.

Interesting premise, but lackluster plot, writing, and acting