I felt conflicted about this movie. The best I can say about it is that Pixar did a fairly decent job with a story that was utterly formulaic and unoriginal. Although I liked the movie well enough, I felt this nagging sense of faint disappointment. I thought that the movie could have been better, but on the other hand, I couldn’t see how it could have been better, given the triteness of the script material. Still worth a viewing, but not up to usual Pixar standards for freshness and fun.

One unqualified positive comment. I watched it with my boyfriend (who calls all animated features “cartoons”), and during the opening moments of the film, he looked at me and said “You told me this was a cartoon; this isn’t a cartoon, it’s a real movie.” The animation was that good.