Remember the classic children's puppet adventure series? Rent copies of that, and avoid this mess.
The film tries to give us an amiable tribute to the original show, which goes awry, and it all falls flat. First, it tries too hard to be funny, even inserting cartoon sound effects in several scenes. The actors mug like idiots, and the script stoops even lower than they do in intelligence level. This movie ends up mocking the series with not enough adventure or story and way too much satirical content. Nothing is cohesive; the audience neither cares what's happening, nor laughs at anything they see. It tries to rip off Jackie Chan and similar satires, but none of the actors have the required comedic talent to accomplish this.
The actors in this are at the level of Date Movie; I almost felt sorry for Ben Kingsley. Why did he sign on to this? He joins in all the low-brow one liners and camera mugging. Just embarrassing. The puppets in the original show were far more emotive and interesting than anybody here.
A failure.
The film tries to give us an amiable tribute to the original show, which goes awry, and it all falls flat. First, it tries too hard to be funny, even inserting cartoon sound effects in several scenes. The actors mug like idiots, and the script stoops even lower than they do in intelligence level. This movie ends up mocking the series with not enough adventure or story and way too much satirical content. Nothing is cohesive; the audience neither cares what's happening, nor laughs at anything they see. It tries to rip off Jackie Chan and similar satires, but none of the actors have the required comedic talent to accomplish this.
The actors in this are at the level of Date Movie; I almost felt sorry for Ben Kingsley. Why did he sign on to this? He joins in all the low-brow one liners and camera mugging. Just embarrassing. The puppets in the original show were far more emotive and interesting than anybody here.
A failure.