A plucky chick and hoity-toity storks help this family-friendly animation take flight
This competently crafted animated feature, a Germany-Luxembourg-Belgium co-production, posits the story of a sparrow (voiced by Cooper Kelly Kramer) called Richard, a name so oddly quotidian for a cartoon hero one has to wonder if it has a different resonance in central Europe.
Orphaned as a chick when his parents are cruelly taken by a weirdly drawn animal one can only assume is meant to be a cat, Richard is adopted by a family of hoity-toity bourgeois storks. Later, it comes as a shock to learn that he is not a stork and, when his adoptive family flies off to make their annual migration to Africa, Richard is determined to catch up with them. New characters join him on the journey, including a ditsy but savant-like Owl (Shannon Conley), much like the Ellen DeGeneres character in the Finding Nemo and Finding Dory films,...
This competently crafted animated feature, a Germany-Luxembourg-Belgium co-production, posits the story of a sparrow (voiced by Cooper Kelly Kramer) called Richard, a name so oddly quotidian for a cartoon hero one has to wonder if it has a different resonance in central Europe.
Orphaned as a chick when his parents are cruelly taken by a weirdly drawn animal one can only assume is meant to be a cat, Richard is adopted by a family of hoity-toity bourgeois storks. Later, it comes as a shock to learn that he is not a stork and, when his adoptive family flies off to make their annual migration to Africa, Richard is determined to catch up with them. New characters join him on the journey, including a ditsy but savant-like Owl (Shannon Conley), much like the Ellen DeGeneres character in the Finding Nemo and Finding Dory films,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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