Tony Verlis Gatto After seeing some of the negative reviews for this movie I just had to submit a positive one because this is a good movie. If you are in the mood for a fun animated film, it is definitely worth a watch. This is far from "Your Standard Religious Ark Story" Anyone that believes this 100% did not watch the film. There is 1 mention of Noah, and then its just animal antics on a boat. Some of the jokes are predictable and the writing does feel standard, but there are more genuinely funny moments and surprisingly heart felt ones as well. You might watch the trailer and think this is a low-tier animated attempt, but if you sit down and watch it you will be surprised

one-nine-eighty This is your standard Noah's ark story as the title may elude to (albeit the title varies depending on which country you find yourself watching the film). The king of the animals, a lion, announces to the other animals that a biblical flood is on it's way to wipe out all the life from the planet. There is a plan to save the animals as an ark has been built to carry them for forty days and forty nights until the flood has gone. The animals each have to meet with the acceptance committee to see if they warrant a place on the ark - it seems only certain animals will be saved and unfortunately for the main characters of this film "Nestrian's" (fluffy neon animals with big snouts that walk on two legs and excrete a cloud of smoke when they are scared) haven't been selected for safety. Rather than face the flood and sure death head on, the Nestrian father and son combination trick their way onto the ark with some Grymps (wolf like solitary creatures, walk on 4 legs and likes to get angry). The child Nestrian and Grymp wander off exploring only to realise that they have left the ark and have been left behind to face the flood. At this point of the film it turns into a journey story, the children try to find a way to avoid the flood water while following the ark and the single parents on the ark try their best to get the ark turned around to rescue the kids. The overall moral is teamwork because alone respectively the two groups, kids and adults, wont be able to succeed by working as a team they should be able to survive.The story isn't epic by any stretch of the imagination as it's based on a story from the bible we've seen many times before, it mirrors other animated films like "Ice Age" and "Finding Nemo" but all the same its harmless fun. Fortunately the film doesn't try and force religion onto it's audiences it simply takes inspiration from a biblical story and goes off on it's own tangent using the inspiration as platform only. The animation was cute and colourful and while the story wasn't the most original the dialogue was amusing at times and there was a mix of gags that both adult and child could find amusing. The clever thing about the film was that as a cynical adult I knew that random animals with names I'd never heard of wouldn't be saved by the end of the film but there was a great twist which showed what happened to the animals God and Noah didn't save. Ultimately the ending is happy and my cynicism was slightly surprised. This is a European film which has been released in various countries (as mentioned by the title variances) however there is nothing lost and the unknown actors doing their turn for the voices carry off the film with charm. There are occasional problems with the animation but let's face it, this was made with a lot less budget than your next Pixar film is likely to get and for what was invested this is a good way to spend a quiet weekend day with audiences of different ages. I have no problem awarding this 6 out of 10, not entirely my cup of tea but not an awful waste of time by any stretch of the imagination.

John Hughes Nothing more than the standard ark story that every one has had rammed down their throats already. The animation was sub-par for a professional film, this looks and feels like a student film, a halfway decent student film but a student film none the less. The lighting of the shots were highly stylized and in my opinion didn't work out too well most of the time. The story was abysmal, boring, predictable and unoriginal and that's all there is to say about that. The voice acting was decent and probably the best part of the film but was not good enough to save it. And I think this last part goes without saying but be prepared to have Christian ideology and highly judgmental characters rammed down your throat, standard Christian indoctrination film. If this is your type of film then you'll love it however I would like my 87 minutes back please.

matthewschultz This is the type of movie we've seen at least one million times before. It starts out with something big and scary, some kids get in trouble and go on an adventure, they meet someone who helps them on said adventure, the one who helps them looks like he dies, the kids look like their not going to make in, some bad guys show up to make things even worse, then it turns out that the one who helped the kids isn't dead because the movie wants to keep a G rating. I've seen this so many times before and it's gotten so old. But the movie was still pretty fun. It also had a bit of religion in the mix without trying to force it down our throats. I found this movie to be enjoyable but nothing special. It's good for a rental. If you want to buy it, wait for a price drop. This movie is not worth full price. In fact, the only reason I own this movie is because I got it for free on the Google Play Store.