Turbo (2013)
7/10
Cute for kids, a smile for adults
3 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Keeping in mind that it's an animated movie targeting children I'd say this is a decent movie. It's cute, the snail idea itself is original, and I'd say there's probably several parts that would make a child laugh.

I wasn't laughing at any point in the movie, but i did smile a few times at some cute little things they did. I appreciate the clean movie that i could easily suggest to any family with young children.

Though I didn't mind watching this, I'd say for adults it's a bit of seen it before and not humorous enough to engage. There where several bits that were extremely hard to swallow. Such as a snail surviving getting bathed by some sort of engine fluid. A very neat garden where the owners just ignored the very large and obvious snail infestation. An adult running over a very large, ripe tomato with a lawnmower instead of picking it up.

I liked how they showed that though turbo's brother seemed unsupportive, he was actually just being protective. He wanted him to be safe and alive. And was there at the end to support turbo to finish. In contrast the 2 human brothers had a lot of issues. The one steals money from the other and that's never really dealt with. Leaving the impression that it's OK to steal if you're following your dreams and succeed. And the other brother doesn't support him until he actually wins the race. Making it feel that it was about success for him instead of his brother.
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