


Overall it will be acceptable to most audiences, with the robot cat being a likely favorite character for many viewers. But it wasn't awful like a lot of kids movies either and didn't detract much from the drama of the main story. I didn't think a lot of the comedy landed well for me. I also think the twist could have been established a little better than it was. Overall I wonder how the movie would have looked if it had explored a B storyline for another character during some of the time-jumps. The main protagonist's circumstance were less sympathetic and more a result of his actual decisions. In some ways it reminded me of an inferior "Up". The animation is very good, the story is solid even if it feels like a lot of the ideas have been done before in different ways and feels like a few ideas didn't quite work as well as possible. Overall I found the movie better than what I was expecting based on it's IMDB score, but still far from being a Pixar classic. And those reviewer who make the movie all about those things seem to say more about themself in their review than the movie itself. I'll address that quickly: None of that seemed like a big selling-point or issue with the movie to me.

This film seems to spark a lot of people to say that this film is completely terrible or that it's completely fabulous because it included a gay relationship in the periphery of the main story, and to an even lesser extent, a convict character who is sympathetic.
