FuzzyTagz
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Kayden
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
premixxed
I was enjoying this until the Goat appeared, I liked the Goat at first, then the Goat was in Every scene trying to be quirky.
I now hate the Goat.
A good film but sadly with a Kate McKinnon as a goat overload.
mshields-02167
For what seemed like a film that was trying to capture the Spanish culture it ended up preaching against it towards the end! This film is basically a cliché annoying kids film! It contains cartoony animation and movements, there's annoying pop songs shoehorned in when the bulls have a dance off with some horses (who have stereotypical German accents and act like pretty white boys????) only to fill up a few minuetes in the film. I'm not even sure if this is thst kid friendly as the bulls you've been attached to by them being given human voices, are sent to the slaughter house if they underperform! Of course it is subtle, but you're child is bound to ask what it means.Overall, I'm sure this would be fine to entertain some kids for 80 minuets, but just be aware that there's better kids films out there!
Big Jimmy
After hearing a lot of positive buzz about Ferdinand, we were itching to see it. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to the hype. It's full of family animation tropes and there's nothing original in the writing or animation. That said, it's not a bad or cringeworthy movie, just a very unoriginal one. Read the book. It's far more interesting and presents a lesson to be learned far quicker than meandering through pretty towns and countrysides to eventually end at a payoff you could see when the opening scene was finished.
Neil Welch
Ferdinand is a flower-loving bull who has a gentle frame of mind and is disinclined to participate in bullfighting until a combination of circumstances has him ending up in the bullring.This CGI feature is based on a classic kids' book, and kids are its intended audience. It is well animated, efficiently (but not especially originally) designed, and has a decent enough combination of action, humour, character to pass the time amiably.The voice cast does well enough but no-one shines especially.This, to me, was a resounding average+ - the kids will enjoy it well enough with younger ones finding more in it than older ones. Parents might nod off.