Honestly, I went in thinking this was going to be another mass manufactured lifeless animation (I'm looking at you Illumination...). But...there is actually some substance. Yes, a film about storks delivering babies (or lack of...) slowly became a coming-of-age animation about parenthood and family. In a world where storks deliver packages, a depiction of Amazon's idyllic dream of drone deliveries, a stork and orphan accidentally create a baby and must deliver said baby to the family who requested it. Silly lighthearted plot aside, the third act is surprisingly heavy and brimming with emotion. The themes of family, parental nurturing and teamwork are all of a sudden injected into the slightly lifeless first and second act. Making the third act rather touching. The film's story is well paced and continuously kept me engaged. A shaky start but I gradually became invested. The characters themselves were hit and miss. Their aesthetics are memorable, yet their personalities aren't which makes it difficult to like them. They are just there. There is a weird pigeon that somewhat stills every scene, I guess it's appropriate comedic timing. The voice acting was very bland. The one-dimensional characters meant that they could be voiced by anyone and so the overall execution felt generic. The animation was stunning, an extremely high-quality finish to each scene. For the first time ever (and hopefully the last), I can say that babies looked absolutely adorable. I succumbed to the cuteness much like the transformational pack of wolves did. Annoyingly in popular animations some pop songs are embedded into the film, which as you all know just irritate me. I want to watch a film, not consistently sing a Jason Derulo song in my head. An eternal nightmare. But but but, I honestly thought this was going to bad. I was pleasantly surprised. The third act alone saves the film from being an unmemorable animated flick. Worth a watch I would say.

Here's a Better Late than Never review of "Storks" (PG - 2016 - US)...Pretty adorable!!Genre: Animated/FamilyMy Score: 7.4Cast=8 Acting=6 Plot=4 Ending=9 Story=6 Art=9 Voice=10 Music=6 Family=10 Funny=6Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby. "Just a brief exposure to baby cuteness can ruin your life!" This actually turned out to be a special delivery...not first class mail, but I was willing to sign for it. Although I did not like the premise, this ultimate family movie more than caught up with some great voice overs and a solid ending. Your wolf pack will not form a broken heart after this one...it ended up softening mine. I recommend this for families with younger children...the cute level was a high 8 with a diaper and big eyes.

Storks no longer deliver babies. They have a large warehouse not named Amazon, where they deliver packages and hopefully life won't imitate art. Tulip, is a undelivered human who works there and messes things up. Her most recent error is to process a baby delivery which involves a long perilous formula trek.The theme once again is family and friends, give up that electronic device to bond with your kid(s). The kids seemed to like the film, while I had a hard time getting into the characters, finding Tulip's situation sad as were her cute antics as in talking to herself. The film had some funny moments, mostly for the kids.

Highly recommended. The movie constantly makes fun of both itself, and family-raising tropes and injects the importance of communication in digestible doses.Although I don't have any spoilers in here, I do mention a couple of specific scenes. This won't ruin your experience of the movie, I promise.This is a great entry into the 'animated family friendly / oriented' genre. The beginning was a little slow to be sure, possibly uninteresting, even.... but 10 minutes in and I'm hooked. It had great chemistry, and the mom-dad type interactions between some of the character pairs were clearly inspired by parents who have been there, recently enough to remember the humour and challenges of early child-raising. That's clear, even to someone who's never had children of their own.Emotionally, it tugs at a few strings, but not to the point of needing tissues; it's light and humorous, tackling the importance of family bonding in a positive way.Warning; If you have young ones going to see this, I think that you should likely make sure they know where babies come from, as this film raises this question in a provocative way, and young inquisitive minds..... well. Let's just say it's a question that begs an answer.Also, the wolves. oh and the penguins. Both are hilarious and cleverly done, and the movie using silence in a creative and funny way to make light of how every-other-film-ever uses mood music to artificially amp up action scenes.Genius.