DreamWorks Animation's latest feature, a co-production with China’s Pearl Studio, has a voice cast including Sarah Paulson and Eddie Izzard.
As big and fluffy and playfully unsophisticated as the monster at its core, DreamWorks Animation’s latest romp,, will not doubt amuse kids ages 10 and under who like their movies simple, sweet and filled with giant blueberries.
Indeed, as the first major co-production between DreamWorks and China’s Pearl Studio, this handsomely made and easily digestible product seems perfectly geared for consumption on both sides of the Pacific, where it will roll out over the next few months following a world premiere in Toronto.and went on to co-directa few years later.
As it turns out, Everest needs to travel in the same direction, both to escape the corporate zoophile, Burnish , who captured the creature for his private collection, and also to reunite with his parents in the Himalayas. Soon enough, Yi and the yeti hit the road, joined by two of the girl’s neighbors and comic-relief providers: the pint-sized basketball freak Peng and the suave ladies’ man Jin . Just behind them are Burnish, his henchwoman Dr.
What works better are the strikingly animated sequences where Everest showcases his own special talent, which is to harness the powers of nature in magical ways. In one scene, he turns a bunch of bushes into Willy Wonka-sized edible berries that come raining down on the characters like cluster bombs. In another, he transforms a field of canola flowers into a massive golden wave that rises up and crashes down like a tsunami.
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