Robinson Crusoe **
Dirs: Vincent
Kesteloot, Ben Stassen. Animation with the voices of: Yuri Lowenthal, Dennis
O’Connor, Jeff Doucette, Laila Berzins. 90 mins. Cert: PG
Once known as The Wild Life, this Belgian-derived
animation arrives at an idea Pixar or DreamWorks would have nurtured – Defoe’s
castaway, as observed by chatty animals – then does nothing very notable with
it. Instead, there follows another stereoscopic runaround: with the source’s
peril diminished the minute this Crusoe is rescued in a prologue by jovial
pirates, the directors are reduced to sending mangy wildcats on every twenty
minutes to harass everybody. The tactic yields a limited form of enjoyment –
the Mouse Trap-like waterslide’s quite fun – but each helter-skelter turn
throws up story and design elements you’ll have seen better programmed
elsewhere. And it’s vicious anti-feline propaganda.
Robinson Crusoe is now playing in cinemas nationwide.
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