Super Grand Prix

This movie was such a nice surprise!

In a time full of disappointing, lukewarm animated films, it was great to see my kids get excited about a story again. It manages to feel both modern and old-school at the same time.

For example, I loved how the mouse girl's role was inspiring, yet felt totally natural - the idea that a girl can achieve just as much as a boy is obvious and implicit (as it should be), without feeling forced or overhyped.

The animation is high-quality, which is great, but they also invested in a quality story, which is not a given. All in all, a really lovely family movie: lively, exciting, and the kind you'd happily rewatch on the couch on a family movie night!

Grand Prix of Europe is an okay movie for younger kids. The story isn't particularly strong and feels fairly predictable. As someone familiar with Europa-Park, the similarities felt a bit too on-the-nose-though if you don't know the park, you likely won't notice. On the upside, the animation quality is solid, and our kids thought it was fun, even if not incredible. Overall, I'd give it a 6 out of 10-a decent watch for a younger audience.

Watched this movie at the premiere in Pula as part of the Pula film festival. Amazing place to watch a movie under the stars and highly recommend the festival itself.

This is honestly a very conflicting movie. Grand Prix of Europe is a massive mixed bag where it's hard to determine if the experience of watching this is worth it or not.

There are some things that it does very well like some fun racing scenes, solid animation and some nice voice acting, but because of the weak script that delivers a generic story, bad comedy and a cast of at best tolerable characters, it's honestly debatable if the film could be considered an okay sports film to celebrate the Europa-Park's 50th annyversary or just be a forgettable kids distractor.

If you are a fan of the Europa-Park, maybe this is worth seeing for yourself to check if you may like this more than I do, but I don't think you'll miss out on this if you choose to pass on this one.

At the most, my recommendation is that this is worth having in the background, where you can look up when some cool action happens, then go back to your own thing afterwards.

Such a cute movie! There's a little something for everyone - the car race for the action, the mice's personal journey and the old amusement park for a more sentimental touch, and a bit of silliness for some laughs.

We went to see it with kids of different ages and interests, and everyone found something to enjoy.

Our favorite character was probably Edda, but some of the side characters were great too - we especially loved Maria the seer and Magnus the bear.

The way they showed the countries in the race was also really nice: simple, representative, fun and just right for kids.

There's nothing pretentious or boring here - just a good old-fashioned family movie, like the ones we used to have.

Highly recommended!

Edda is a mouse with grand ambitions. After getting another mouse named...Ed injured, she manages a spot in the titular Grand Prix. Will she win? Or do a few sabouteurs get in her way?

Overall this movie is pretty serviceable plot wise. No major reveals, no in-depth character drama, and that's alright. The animation is a cheap-looking CGI, but at least they get the textures rights.

A mild recommendation.