The Tale of Despereaux
Are You Screening?A wild tale built on inner turmoil. Fun and beautiful, but almost too complex. A worthy effort, but not for everyone.
Film School RejectsAnd while the animation was well done, once soup is outlawed, the kingdom falls into a state of dreariness. This is an okay ...
San Francisco Chronicle"The Tale of Despereaux" has a few book-to-movie translation problems, but the animation augments the story so successfully ...
JobloThey might not have as big of a heart as Despereaux claims to have, but they are a lot less complicated and depressing.
The Screening LogA a lifeless, simplistic bore that falls flat both in terms of story and characters.
Get the Big PictureWithout being overly complicated, its story is a bit of a page-turner, although some of the time you’d be content to just ...
Collider"The Tale of Despereaux" is actually quite a misleading title. There's so much oddity floating around this misguided film, i...
E! OnlineNo soup for you! But there's still plenty to feast upon. In this animated fable, a king outlaws Soup Day after a culinary ac...
FilmcriticThe Tale of Despereaux began life as a children's book, and the animated film version does its best to reproduce the sounds ...
San Francisco Chronicle"The Tale of Despereaux" has a few book-to-movie translation problems, but the animation augments the story so successfully ...
Chicago Sun-Times"The Tale of Despereaux" is one of the most beautifully drawn animated films I've seen, rendered in enchanting detail and pa...
VarietyNobly striving to realize the source material's many intricacies and chronological shifts, this graphically well-rendered ki...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Sam Fell
Writer: Gary Ross
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy
Release: December 19, 2008
Writer: Gary Ross
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy
Release: December 19, 2008
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