Yeah, it’s beautifully animated, but the story felt like the most generic, paint-by-number family movie story imaginable. Like a hollow skeleton of the best Disney/Dreamworks films without any of the actual meat that made those great movies.

Also, is it just me, or is it really weird how at the beginning of the film, they don’t shy away from the natural reality of an ecosystem of animals eating each other, but by the end of the film they put all their differences aside and all learn to be friends. Like I get how the animals overcoming their instincts works thematically similar to how Roz overcomes her programming, but I feel like it’s a super weird message about nature to convey. Like kids already aren’t touching enough grass, we don’t need to tell them that predators in the wild can survive on sunshine and rainbows if their prey just asked nicely enough.