Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

SnoopyStyle Roscuro the rat visits the kingdom of Dor during the "Royal Soup Day." Roscuro goes for a closer smell and falls into the Queen's soup. He scared her to death, and the distraught king bans all soup and rats. Roscuro falls down into the kingdom of rats. Princess Pea despairs over the kingdom's decline. Then Despereaux is born. He's a small mice with giant ears who has no natural fears. They try to teach him to cower to no avail. He befriends Princess Pea with the love of books, and the council banishes him to the dungeons for breaking a code about talking to humans. Then he is pit against a cat in the Ratworld arena games.The animation looks good but the story is way too messy. There are too many story lines going on. The voice work is generally unimpressive especially Despereaux. He lacks energy. Emma Watson is a little better. Coming a year and a half after Ratatouille, the difference in energy and fun between the two is night and day. The movie is better off staying with Despereaux all the way through and introduce Roscuro later. This is a movie that needs a few more rewrites to clean up the messiness. Too bad because there is a good message somewhere in the movie.

Emylie Keehner As a child, (3rd grade-ish?) I read this book over and over again. It was dark, but powerful, and it rang true. It helped me through some dark times.Even today, being 18 years old, it's still one of my favorites. THE BOOK.However, the second I heard they were making a movie, I was scared of them butchering this wonderful tale. They certainly did.I stuck through until the end, just to hope it would have some sort of redeeming quality-- and it did not... I understand that they couldn't make it as dark as the book (It'd have to be rated PG or PG-13 or something) but STILL. A veggie monster?! What's up with that? The singing and dancing? They have absolutely RUINED a childhood (and adult) favorite.SUMMARY: If you read this book and enjoyed it... please do not even bother looking at this movie. It will absolutely ruin your day.

dumsumdumfai I think I get it. This animation has a very specific look and feel. It is definitely not Pixar or Disney.Even the story goes back to the days of knights, castles, princess in distress and the King as a sidekick.Now the plot gets a bit complicated, characters of all kinds shows up. And there's a big scene near the end. But this is somewhat gentle, a throwback.Still I can't get over the look. So distinct that it stayed in my mind. There's some softness which unlike most animation these days - are overly sharp for my tastes. And some characters' are drawn with slightly overdrawn features - except the mouses. While others are fairly normal in a sense.The story does shifts from perspective to perspective. Maybe some will get annoyed by this - and particularly not really done for extensive takes in animation. But I am OK. Maybe kids will get a bit confused by this ?

g-bodyl It's sad that movie producers don't make this kind of movie anymore. This is a classic, wonderful fairy tale that is good for the whole family. It does have a few flaws such as this movie is too dark for a G-rating. But the movie itself works and it's not boring like many people say it to be.This is about a mouse who is different from the rest of the mice. After being kicked out of this tribe, he befriends a rat and together they must save a kingdom from darkness.This movie has an impressive voice cast. Matthew Broderick does a good job playing the hero mouse.The animation is pretty good. It looked like the animation was drawn. I liked it though. It reminds me of old Disney movies. In fact, this has a great moral like the rest. I liked this film a lot. I rate this film 8/10.