Norm of the North
Norm of the North
PG | 15 January 2016 (USA)
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Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.

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princessstrickland21

This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad. I don't why, but I can tell they weren't trying. If Rob Schneider isn't busy ruining Adam Sandler movies, he destroy cartoons. I've seen Alaska, not a bad movie, but believe me, I've seen reviews and this doesn't look as if it's trying. The writing, horrendous, the voice acting, aren't trying, most of the movie is seeing with those three lemmings either pissing or farting. Do a favor, just no! Just NO!

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Richard G.

This movie is an affront to God, good christian values, and all that is good and holy. The people who made it will rot in hell for what they did. It is unthinkably horrible. If you watch this atrocity, you will find yourself asking God what humanity did to deserve this.0/10, the U.S. government should imprison its creators.

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nicolasbaronparada

Oh, god.. This film.. Anyway, I'm gonna be talking about the film, "Norm of the North". In fact, you know what? For the duration for this review I am not going to refer to it as "Norm of the North". I'm gonna call it "Polar S*it". Because that's exactly what this film is. It's a piece of garbage that just happens to take place in the North Pole. So yeah. Here we go.So the film "Polar S*it" follows this one polar bear who for the sake of this review, I'm just gonna refer to him as "S*ithead" Who's voiced by Rob Schneider! And has the ability to communicate with humans. That's right, after years and years of living in the arctic and not being surrounded by humans whatsoever, he can not only speak and understand them but can speak English fluently! Yeah, wrap your brain around that which that is not the only elogic thing about the story by the way, we'll get to more those. And apparently he's trying to stop this one housing company called "Green homes" get it? Green homes? Meaning like eco friendly homes but they're building in the arctic? I get it, it's not sudden whatsoever. Stop trying to be clever, writers. You're not!! From building houses in the arctic so he heads over to New York City to tell the people "Hey, they're building houses in the arctic, you gotta save the arctic!" But in the process, he ends up working for the guy that's building the houses in the arctic and raising his approval ratings. The film just loses focus after the thirty minute mark it just goes all over the place and it doesn't even know what type of story it's trying to tell anymore.Now, I can go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, about how horridly this film and the experience it gave me is. I can sum up this film in one sentence. It is painfully BORING!! BORING!! I sat there for ninety three minutes saying to myself "When is it gonna get funny? When is it gonna get entertaining? When are you gonna do something that'll take my eyes away from my phone?" Throughout the entire film, I was on my phone. I mean yeah, sure it's just there but it's just background noise I just really didn't care what was happening on screen I can just pretty much surmise that where the story was going and how it was going to end so what's the damn point of just having to look at the damn screen?And here's how you know that this film failed so EPICALLY!! It's target demographic is children. This is a kid so film, it can be apparent to anybody that has seen a poster, seen a trailer or actually just had to sit to this damn movie that it is a kids film. And when I was in theater, there were some families watching the film with me in fact I wasn't the only one knew that this film came out, Hell, I didn't even know this film came out until someone told me saying "Hey, you gonna see Norm of the North?" And I'm like, "The hell is Norm of the North?" And I knew it was a movie coming out so, I went to go see it and there were some families there with me. Throughout the duration of this film, not a single person laughed at anything that was happening on screen there is no audience reaction. Hell, thirty minutes into this film, I look behind me, there was a family behind me when I first came into the theater, I look behind me again, thirty minutes later, THEY'RE GONE! They took their kids and they left the theater. They didn't come back. Throughout the entire film, never came back! That's how bad this film is! It's so bad that even the kids didn't enjoy it! There was three year old in the audience with me. And throughout the entire film, all that he was doing, was talking to his mom or talking to his dad or running up and down the stairs. He was bored out of his mind! If you can't even appeal to the audience that you are supposed to be catering to, you suck!! You fail!! Right from the gecko, this film showed me that it could care less about its audience. It could give a flying F about you!Now let's talk about the animation. This animation is some of the poorest, weakest and laziest forms of animation I've seen in two decades! Twenty years! "Toy Story" the first one made all the way back in 1995, nearly 21 years ago, looks way better in comparison! And it was made back in the emphacy,the genesis of CGI animation! This animation looks like it was probably made during that emphacy as they put no effort into making anything look good, anything look fluid, anything look nice, all the human characters look like plastic dolls! They look cheap! There's no design put into them! There's no extra effort put into the looks of the characters, they all look so paper thin!But trust me, when I say that that's not the only thing that's paper thin in this film, there's also the characters! Not a single one of them were memorable, not a single one of the, were likeable, none of the characters go to any interesting development of development at all!The main character S*ithead not only have the misfortune of being voiced by Rob Schneider, but he's such a lackluster hero! He doesn't do anything throughout the film that would make the audience finding him likeable, or thinking that he was king material. Like, throughout the entire film, they're talking about, "Oh, you're gonna be the king! Oh, you're the rightful king! You will be the one who will lead our arctic nation to our promise land! Oh, you'll be the greatest king ever lived!" Show, don't tell! Don't tell us of how this guys a great character and how he's gonna be a great king! Show us by his actions and what he does throughout the film! And what he does throughout the film, none of it seems king worthy to me. In fact, he's more like the gesture that he is the king.There's this red headed lady in the film played by Heather Graham is without question is the most pointless, useless and unnecessary character in the entire film. What the hell does she do in this film? Literally, what does she do? Nothing! I don't even remember what her purpose was in this film! And she has this side story about how she wants to spend time with her daughter and she's really smart. It's the most cliche and unnecessary side story in this film. Like honestly, we didn't need it. It was just padding for the film!And the main "antagonist" of this "film" Mr. Greene, much like the protagonist, is incredibly lackluster and forgettable! Not only is he cliche, not only is he wacky and goofy in all of the unfunny ways, he's just a straight rip off of another VILLIAN from another animated film, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2". Now, I wouldn't be surprised if the writers or the animators just decide to take that character and just put them as the main antagonist of this film. And both characters are like the head of these corporations and both move so weirdly like they're always moving around. And Ken Jeong voices the characters! No, Ken Jeong! Stop being in these awful movies! I know you can do better, do you want to go back to being a doctor, Ken Jeong?And the last character that I want to rant about are the three lemmingwicks that follow S*ithead around the entire film. Who are without question, the most annoying characters in this god awful film! I mean they're supposed to come off as the charming, adorable sidekicks for the main character you know like the Minions! But the most problem is that they lack the appeal, they lack the charm and most importantly they lack the humor that the Minions possess! Those three little F'rs are just so annoying which they try to make you laugh, but everything that they do is just lowbrow and sophmored that only a toddler would laugh at their antics, only a toddler would think that their shenanigans are really hilarious. There's a scene where it's them pee they pee into a fish tank and they stay on this scene for about 30 seconds to a minute, and I'm just sitting like, "Why is this scene still happening?" It's not funny, nobody was laughing, nobody around me was laughing at that scene. We all went, "Ugh, they resorted to a pee joke." Fine! Even the kids were like that they were like, "Ew, pee jokes? No.." What were they thinking? They were like, "Oh, let's stay on this scene a little longer so the audience could stifle their laughter because they're gonna find this scene really funny! Ha ha ha! No, of course they wouldn't!And that leads to me to the second biggest issue with this film, its humor, or lack as there wasn't a funny scene, a funny moment or funny character to be seen! All of their attempts of humor are weak, piss poured attempts to make the audience laugh with its lowbrowed humor. And guess what? It didn't work. There wasn't a single giggle! In the entire theater, nobody laughed! More people laughed about how cringeworthy this film was. There is a huge amount of puns in this film. And I was like, "Are they're trying to be funny with these puns?" Because I tell you right now, they're not funny. They're just really pathetic. They think that they just throw in some puns here and there and that the audience would laugh, but guess what? We're not buying it, get the hell away from us.But without question, the most atrocious thing about this film, and it's so bad that it's downright insulting to the audiences intelligence both the kids and the adults. And that's its incoherent story! It's story is so nonsensical, even for a kids film! It makes films like a Troll in Central Park look like a deep story! The entire premise of this film revolves around the fact, that a housing company wants to start building houses in the arctic. Are you serious right now? Are you actually serious?? What company would ever want to build houses in the arctic? The arctic! One of the coldest, harshest regions on this planet! That is a bad business decision! All right, I don't even know why I wasted time telling you guys about this film. Here's my rating: 1/10I can't even give this film a 0/10 because the site won't let me.

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marshmallowslayer

"Norm of the North" to me looked like a nice, fun family movie, but when I watched it, it was full of total garbage. If I had to, I wouldn't even give it a rating. It was so bad. The lemmings (rip-offs of minions) are so annoying, they pee everywhere and are very disgusting. The movie was poorly animated and very boring. This movie has some gay jokes, which aren't appropriate for a pg film.

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