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I am a huge Pixar fan - HUGE! But this one is definitely a relative miss. The plot is ridiculous, it has tons of inconsistencies, the story is weak, I didn't feel much for any of the characters, it portrays the worst stereotypes, manages to make city people look stupid AND also makes country folk look stupid, etc. etc.

There are some amusing jokes, and the visuals are gorgeous as usual for Pixar films, but that's about all I can put in the Pros column for this movie.

Even the best artists in the world sometimes produce a dud. I hope that's what really happened here, because the alternative is that this was just designed to be a cash-in movie.

I love dumb comedies, like Airplane or I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, but this movie is just not funny. I had a small chuckle at maybe 2 jokes, but that's it. I'm not judging this movie as bad because the jokes were low brow or because the setup was stupid, I'm rating this movie as bad because it didn't make me laugh, and that's all that matters in a comedy.

On top of not making me laugh, the movie is basically one giant commercial. I'm not talking about product placement, I'm talking about the actors looking right at the camera and doing a full on product endorsement commercial. And it didn't happen just once or twice, the commercials are continuous. I bet if you added up the time of scenes where there was a major product commercial on screen vs. time of scenes when there weren't, it'd probably be about 2/3 of the movie is all commercial advertisements. And the parts that aren't commercials are just not funny.

Not funny. Not funny. Not funny.