I am not sure what movie the people who have given this movie a bad rating are watching, but surely they couldn't have seen the one I just saw. What I saw was clever, amusing and downright fun. With kids animated films, they usually try to smarten up the trailer because the movie itself is too dumbed down. In the case of Freddy Frogface, it's the opposite. I was not expecting the smart film that this is. It is not overdone with pointless violence or overkilled with characters reciting obvious lines that imply messages the kids are supposed to walk away with. The movie's setup, characters and smart delivery already do all the work of delivering the message without someone TRYING to drive a point home. It's a kids movie that kids can actually plug into. It is not an ADULT'S version of what they believe a kids movie should be, its a kids story told the way a kid would tell it, and that is so much more appealing.
To those who are saying the movie sends the wrong message, I am not understanding HOW it does that?! Freddy was a bully who treated everyone like dirt, and in the end FREDDY'S OWN PLAN to stop Victor from finally having the last laugh and being a hero completely falls apart. Freddy wanted to win so badly that he didn't consider that winning sometimes has a negative cost he never considered, and that those who are mean to others always are paid back in the end, usually by their own undoing. Sounds like a great message to me, and it was delivered properly, and without the need for the characters to launch into stupid, sappy or silly songs every five minutes to tell it. Anyone who sees this film as negative in any way apparently has been so brainwashed by the animated drivel that oozes out of the Hollywood machine's butt that they can no longer recognize when a proper kids movie actually DOES come along. As someone else said, I too, am hoping for a sequel, and as anyone who's read my movie reviews knows, I am not ordinarily the biggest defender of sequels in ANY genre. 5 stars++ for having the guts to buck the cookie cutter kids movie system, ingenuity, storytelling and reaching kids on THEIR level and making the adults smile along in the process.
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