Mr Peabody and Sherman

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It was just a stereotypical Dreamworks film frankly. I would give Mr Peabody and Sherman a 6.5/10.

As far as animated films go this one had a great father/son story to it, as well as great themes on bullying in modern culture and some decent history knowledge for kids (even if they were a few inaccuracies). I also felt the pacing for this film was very good and they had some great references (the ocarina from Zelda for example).

Ariel Winter, who voiced Penny Peterson, was a great character, you despised her at first but you watched as her character grew into a kid you really liked and cared about. Allison Janney, who voiced Ms. Grunion, was an antagonist that I really thought was terrifying in a Dolores Umbridge way. Stanley Tucci, who voiced Leonardo Da Vinci, nearly stole the show, he was funny and just very high spirited which added to the film. Patrick Warburton, who voiced Agamemnon, was just great comic relief and his veteran run as a voice actor really shows.

However I think the best voice actor of the film was Ty Burrell, who voiced Mr Peabody. He had such an intricate character to play, at once bringing the care and love of a father but having to remain distanced and almost robotic in how he talked. Just a great performance.

This film used weak humour too often and it felt like it was only to make the film itself longer. Seriously half the film was bad puns and it just didn't work. I also don't think Dreamworks tried to do anything out of the box with their animation so it didn't feel very special in that regard either. The music for this film (while there were some good references) was just not very good and just felt as if it had been placed in the movie and didn't in fact add to it.

This film was let down by it's wide array of bad side characters, I'm not going to bother listing all the actors for each one but it was not a strong supporting cast. Max Charles, who voiced Sherman, was a lousy voice actor and felt like someone pulled out of a Disney Junior show.