Reviews

Vanguard has some of the worst movies ever released (with a few paltry exceptions)... why Netflix thought it was a good idea to 'recruit' them is beyond all rational thought. The animation is below subpar and lifeless with no use or knowledge of lighting/shadows and the backgrounds are terrible! EVERYTHING about this screams bland and juvenile, bad fat jokes delivered by even worse timing and acting. Yes, I realize that this is an animated film, but even children deserve standards. So, Reid is about everything you'd expect from stereotypical high school kid that plays video games ALL DAY- bumbling and awkwardly flippant. As for the girl, another stale and shallow role involving a kid too future-focused on grades and college and red lobster crabfest, as if a single bad "group/partner" assignment will bring a teachers' pet's perfect gpa crashing down - so long collegiate career- just so she can make a difference in the world. Additionally, WHO schedules TWO BATHROOM BREAKS an HOUR?? Does she have Crohn's or ibs? Maybe just cursed with a baby's bladder? She certainly has no maternal instincts, as she NEVER spends time with the babies. At least the government doesn't have a clipboard-toting, loud-mouth, hnic to make sure nothing goes wrong! Wait, I spoke too soon... maybe they should switch back to having a narcissistic general with a southern accent in charge! The only bearable figures here are the characters that have zero speaking parts. Nonetheless, despite the danskin-wear, the babies are still only borderline endearing... AND WILL SOMEONE FEED THEM ALREADY??!!

I was looking forward to seeing this, only to realize that everything DIES... Even the guys married life! All I heard during this movie was HIS VERSION... "I" thought, or "I" wanted to... in the preview it mentions his son, what a laugh!!!! He should have rewarded this beautiful creature who trusted him with security. Months of gaining trust from an amazing creature to repay it with no protection, it is WITHOUT DOUBT HIS FAULT!!!!

I love computer animated films and I'm in my 30s... But this was terrible!! It would have been funnier if they had tried "orphaning" themselves by implementing some of the weapons installed for the house hunters on their parents instead-kinda like a Home Alone VS The 'Rents! The mom & dad were just disturbing to watch and the moustache-hair knitting was not nearly as funny as it could have been. Nanny was obnoxiously loud while being way too cheery about the appalling child abuse situation and I didn't find the Barnabys creepy in the least (but that baby WAS a straight up alien)! Nearly everything the movie claimed about itself turned out to be the complete opposite! It had a happy ending, although Ricky Gervais's perpetually oh-so-arrogant sarcastic voice had introduced {far too much in a Lemony Snicket-style} the fact that it wouldn't! The Barnabys WEREN'T creepy; the kids were supposed to be smart, but couldn't cook their own food?? Somehow the fascist child orphan service allowed them to be adopted by Nanny and Willy Wonka-ripoff-dude without ever knowing whether their parents actually died in the Alps (they didn't by the way, until the very end when they were eaten by sharks).

The kids are lying, ungrateful, BAD PEOPLE! How they didn't end up in juvie at the end is beyond me. False fire alarms, STEALING, SCAMS, ETC. Not only that, these kids are NOT heroes, but the most ungrateful little cheats! True, their foster family IS sub-par, but it is their 12th!! So what happened with the first 11? My thoughts are that the children, not the adults were to blame for that!! Lisa Kudrow said they have a time for dinner, and if it's missed, no dinner! Good for her! Also I kept thinking if that was my dog, and they'd accidentally slipped their collars and went missing, I'd like to be able to call the local animal shelter and locate them ASAP! I'd rather them be safe, warm, & fed than on the streets or in the hands of misguided youths! These idiot kids didn't think anything about that fact when they were "saving" the animals. And when you save any animal (canine, feline, or even human), you take it to a place where it is better off than it was before. That nasty, condemned "roach motel" is not much better than a trash dump!! I realize that it is a movie and the dogs weren't starving but even so, most of the dogs were probably just lost, not homeless! Don't let your kids waste 1.5 hours of their lives with this movie!

Hilarious all the way through! Could not stop laughing during the bathroom scene! I liked seeing more of the pigs. Not a highly clever or deep storyline but it's decent for an animated movie. I would have given it a 10 but I didn't like Zeta. Her voice is just ear-grating. Also I couldn't believe Debbie was actually her daughter, the way she was treated. Zeta should have been a heck of a lot nicer to her own daughter!