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Dec 14, 2015Nursebob rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I must admit to not being a fan of the original series and seeing this big screen treatment hasn’t changed my mind much. The colourful animation does have a retro Polynesian feel to it with flower patterns and tacky trunks but the perpetually unhinged characters (including a morose squid, capitalist crab, and demented squirrel in a diving bell) grate after a while. Even a couple of anemic nods to "Mad Max" and "The Shining", some thinly veiled drug references, and a fully fleshed Antonio Banderas in ridiculous pirate drag can’t stop the production from looking like "Pee Wee’s Playhouse" with all of the hysteria but very few laughs. Some things just belong on cable.