Drôles de petites bêtes

A cricket named Apollo is a traveling entertainer who arrives at a luscious garden hoping to perform in the Queen's jubilee. Wendy the Wasp tricks him into a scheme to kidnap the queen. Wendy takes over as the new queen threatening the health of the garden.

The animation looks blocky and more like Legos. The dialogue is flat. It needs an injection of humor. The general premise is fine but the execution is lackluster. The worst of all is that it's rather boring. This is equivalent to a children's TV cartoon movie. It's probably fine for the smallest kids.

It is not bad, but it is not good either. In fact it is yet another story of attempted overthrow of the throne, something that has already been seen 100 times - just this time, transposed into the universe of Funny little beasts. It's not badly done (in 3D animation), it's just disappointing. It's just another umpteenth ordinary story of fighting between the good and the bad. The enchanting universe of the book and the delicacy of texts written for children is lost. Not to mention the pictorial touch very banal (unlike the TV series that reproduced the gouache style and was shimmering). Pity. Maybe another director will take over the torch.

There's much better fare out there for families and children. Seriously don't waste your time on this. The dialogue was dull and forced. And the cricket.....omg. what a creepy face the animators gave him. The whole movie was just goofy af..