The Tale of Despereaux suffered from insufficient pruning and an unengaging narrator, hampering what could have been a wonderful story with delightful characters. Macy, Stanley Tucci), the combined shine of their star power couldn’t salvage the poor (if accurate) retelling of the book by Kate DiCamillo. While the voice acting was loaded with stars (Emma Watson, Dustin Hoffman, Tracey Ullman, Kevin Kline, William H. The Tale of Despereaux tells the story of several unlikely heroes: Despereaux, a brave mouse banished to the dungeon for speaking with a human Roscuro. Despereaux (Mathew Broderick) is the only uplifting character but the burden of carrying the movie was too much for this little mouse…even if he did have big ears. The story, a simple damsel in distress fare, felt flat and dragged you down in its overbearing melancholy. Every character that had a knot in the plot was expanded upon unnecessarily, and made the movie drag on needlessly.

Sure the animation was great, but the story wandered too often in lengthy asides on characters no one cared about. Though tiny, wheezy and saddled with comically oversized ears, Despereaux refuses to live a. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver (Vantage Point), The Tale of Despereaux never grabbed your interest. A brave and virtuous mouse, Despereaux is simply too big for his small world. Despereaux forgives his father, upon the father's request, for sentencing him to the dungeon, before mocking the rest of the council. In this particular case, you’ve seen the best and funniest parts of the movie in this trailer. The Tale of Despereaux (film) 2008 British-American computer-animated adventure fantasy film directed by Sam Fell and Rob Stevenhagen loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo. Despereaux is seen by the mouse council, who mistook him for a ghost because he is covered in flour from sleeping on the flour sack. This, sometimes, leads me to hating trailers. So when I saw the trailer for The Tale of Despereaux, I HAD to see it.

A plethora of stars cannot salvage this story.

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