Genre: Animation, family

Rating: * miserable star for the good quotes…

It was really boring… First we were ‘entertained’ by a 10min clip on Mickey Mouse and his friends which I probably would have appreciated if I were seven or if I were so bored and having breakfast. (somehow, I don’t mind watching cartoons with breakfast, especially on those long-haul flights). Anyway, we fell asleep during the cartoon… and when the film finally started, I remembered zooming off to dopeyland somewhere along the way…

It was really tragic… It was an animation film trying to hard to be grown-up and to move us viewers to tears. It was about a kid who grew up in an orphanage, who is super keen with inventing stuff… No one wants to adopt him though, because of his eccentricities. One day, he meets Wilbur, who brings him ‘to the future’! There he finds a family that can accept him… blah blah and then there’s this evil bowler-hat wearing crook who tries to steal time machines, and tries to ruin the kid’s creations… It was just very boring… Shrek is almost 5 times better!

Anyway, the saving grace of the film was right at the end… this quote…

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

Keep moving forwards… And that’s what I have to do… I have to get over the past.