2018 · comedy · animation · adventure
Animal Crackers
Directed by Tony Bancroft, Scott Christian Sava, Jaime Maestro1h 44m2018
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
Our read: Animal Crackers (2018) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · animation · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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How Animal Crackers feels to watch.
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“You want a colorful family animated adventure with a magical circus and animal transformations.”
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