I saw Storks on
a very quiet Thursday, not expecting much, but I found myself laughing through
this 3D animation. The movie isn’t trying to make any form of sense or even
dance on the path between reality and fantasy. It’s all-around fantasy—where
storks deliver babies to parents, animals and humans share a common language,
and a wolf pack can adapt to any surroundings.
Storks is one of those animations that may not do well at the box office
due to its story and not-too-popular advertising, but the movie is good enough to
be seen by both parents and children alike. The animation doesn’t kid itself on
being realistic, so when you watch this movie, you have to leave your logical
belt outside.
Storks is a
buddy comedy animation between a stork and an eighteen-year-old girl. The
former is trying to cover up his inability to fulfill a task, and the latter is
trying to do something right. Their mix with a very memorable wolf pack will
leave you walking out of the cinema with a smile on your face. The animation is
preceded by a short Lego animation, which was a lot of fun. It gives hope that
many good Lego animations can be expected from the Warner Bros. animation
studio.
Criticism of
this animation will come from the standard of the movie. You wouldn’t expect a
high-end studio like Warner Bros. to produce such an animation with a
second-class story. Another criticism will be in the dialogue—the movie has
funny lines, but the characters seem to be in a hurry to deliver them and move
on to the next one.
So, what
is Storks about?
It’s about storks who deliver babies to expecting parents until one stork gets
infected by the cuteness of a baby and doesn’t deliver as expected. The baby
factory is shut down due to this anomaly and stops delivering babies, instead
starting to deliver packages.
One stork, named
Junior, is about to be promoted to boss, and his first task as an aspiring boss
is to fire an eighteen-year-old girl, Tulip, who has been with the company as a
result of the incident mentioned above. Unable to fulfill that duty, he places
her in the shutdown baby factory to attend to letters from parents wanting
babies. Letters haven’t been sent since the shutdown, and Junior thought
everything was safe—until a desperate little boy writes a letter and sends it.
Tulip receives the letter and puts it in the baby machine, and now a baby is
created, waiting to be delivered. Junior, upset that his plan to keep Tulip out
of sight has failed, decides to deliver the baby in secret with Tulip’s help,
with no other stork being the wiser.
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