Ben Meyers’ rating: 3.4|5.0
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Norm
of the North: Family Vacation—average animated
fare—continues to be plagued with lack of character development that can
adequately connect to an audience. This movie seems like a package of quilting
pieces that have been torn from many movies and pieced together in hopes of
creating a ‘new’ animated feature. Norm of the North has this terrific
polar bear with no where to go. He needs an original story, deeper character development
that an audience can relate to, and an original/creative path to follow. It is
like the creator of this wonderful animated figure doesn’t know him very well
and doesn’t know what to do with him. A suggestion for the next sequel in the
series is: Let the writer ‘get to know’ the bear, ‘like’ the bear (not for his
animation), but for his personality, and then go on an adventure with him. The
story that develops from that process will be original, fresh, and hopefully
will raise Norm to the position he deserves. The other option is to let Norm
die a peaceful death and develop new animation that has somewhere to go.
Film Poster Courtesy of Google Images
Storyline
Norm
goes on an adventure to find his missing crown.
Additional Thanks
Thank
you to Director Anthony Bell for directing effort. Thank you to Executive
Producers Mike Bundlie, Ken Katsumoto, Anne Parducci, Steve Rosen, Amber Wang,
Andrew Wang, and Mike Young for making the film possible. Additional
characters/cast include: Chase (Voice of Jennifer Cameron), Fu/Polar Bear (Voice
of Paul Dobson), Tiny/Mickey/Jim (Voice of Brian Drummond), Elizabeth/Maria
(Voice of Lisa Durupt),
Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?
No.
Children and adults will be better served with the Ice Age series or the
Cars series.
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Ben Meyers
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