This is another film I can't believe got nominated for an Oscar. In this case, it was Best Animated Feature, which it didn't have a shot of winning against Pixar anyhow, but still. Tim (Miles Bakshi) has a perfect life for a seven-year-old with two adoring parents (Jimmy Kimmel and Lisa Kudrow) doting on him constantly. Then a new baby (Alec Baldwin) arrives and Tim is immediately on guard. He quickly learns that the baby has been sent to infiltrate his home as part of an intelligence gathering mission to stop the company his parents work for from releasing a new breed of puppy to the market. The baby corporation fears that the amount of love in the world will be taken over by the puppy industry and has dispatched a team of agents to commit industrial espionage.
If that sounds like a totally soulless premise for a kids movie, congratulations, you are smarter than the executives at DreamWorks. There's nothing really wrong here, per se. It's competently animated and voiced. It just lacks any sort of joy or life. There are so many good animated film out there, it would really be criminal to waste your time on this one.
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