2008 · family · animation · comedy
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby
Directed by Howard E. Baker, Arish Fyzee1h 16m2008
When the three pigs find a tiny wolf cub on their doorstep, they decide to raise him as their own, unaware that they've played right into the plan of a special-ops team of wolves. As the newest addition to their family, Lucky grows into his teens not knowing his history, his role in the wolves' plan or the difficult choice he will have to make about the family that raised him.
Our read: Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · animation · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
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