Directors: Ben Renner & Guylo Homsy
Actors: Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Danny DeVito, Caspar Jennings
Genre: Adventure / Family
Rating: G
‘Migration’ is a really well-made family film. It’s a simple premise
about anthropomorphic ducks – the father duck, Mack (Nanjiani), wants to
protect his children/chicks, Dax (Jennings) and Gwen (Gazal), and the mother
duck, Pam (Banks), wants them to experience the world and gain some experience.
They meet some other ducks migrating south for the winter – they’re presumably
in North-Eastern USA – so they decide to do the same, with quirky uncle Dan (DeVito)
in tow.
What follows is both a semi-familiar road-trip comedy, as well as a
refreshing take on family, trying new things and helping others. There’s a
great support cast, as the duck family passes through New York City and meets
Chump the pigeon (Awkwafina), Delroy the macaw (Key), as well as Erin the heron
(Kane) and GooGoo (Mitchell) – either a goose or a white duck. There’s a nice
jail-break sequence for Delroy, which sets up the human antagonist, the Chef.
For some reason the Chef also has a Chinook and
hunts them down, leading to Dax and Gwen having to step-up. The animation is a
nice mix of cartoonish and realistic, and it looks excellent, especially at the
end. There’s no overly-scary moments, some teachable themes, the voice cast is
all good and there’s consistent laughs throughout. There’s also ‘Mooned’, the 9-min
‘Despicable Me’ tie-in at the start of the film, which kids seemed to love.
Overall: Nice, fun family film
Gav's Rating: 3.5 stars.
Lucy’s rating: 5 stars.
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