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28 January 2009 (USA) moreUser Comments:
Cute animation spoiled by a flimsy story moreCast
(Credited cast) | Lily Rabe | ... | Mona Peek |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | H. Jon Benjamin | ... | Police Officer |
 | Xander Berkeley | ... | Dad |
| Don Byron | ... | Ralph (voice) |
 | Kevin Corrigan | ... | Hector Freegood |
 | Richard Cox | ... | Stalker Timmy |
 | David Cross | ... | Timmy (voice) |
| Ann Dowd | ... | Honey Woman |
| Jon Glaser | ... | Tooot |
| Hillary Hubley | ... | Young Mona |
 | Sakina Jaffrey | ... | Lacticia Utt |
 | Daniel London | ... | Elevator Man |
 | Jane Lynch | ... | Honey Strumpet |
 | Andrea Martin | ... | Honey (voice) |
 | Eugene Mirman | ... | Night Elevator Man |
| Sean J. Moran | ... | Wilson Utt |
| Novella Nelson | ... | Victoria Hadaway |
 | Mary Kay Place | ... | Mom |
 | John Sayles | ... | Cramden |
 | Marian Seldes | ... | Eunice (voice) |
 | Eli Wallach | ... | Maestro |
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Animation and live action combined. The animation is generally good. The live action is competently done. Unfortunately the whole is spoiled by a poorly conceived story.
I cannot make a lot of sense of the story. It involves a young woman who loses her wallet which is recovered by a kid who takes secret lessons from a piano teacher who crosses path with the kid's mother and love is in the air. Concurrently the young woman gets a temporary job cataloguing notes for a woman who lives in a building with a warehouse-like manned elevator. The elevator man gets a fix on the young woman and meets her at a singing bar where he plays guitar. I suppose it ends with everyone living happily ever after.
I held for an excruciating seventy minutes hoping the story would get somewhere interesting. I gave up, defeated by the childish tenor of the narrative, the uninspiring surrealism, the flimsy narrative connection between animation and live action and, principally, the poorly conceived screenplay.
Part of the problem is that the audience for this film is ill-defined. Children may enjoy the animation bits but not a lot more. Teenagers are out of the question. Adults may be bored by the narrative that drives the animated characters.
It's too bad this is a flop for there is talent here. Clearly good technique and imagination are on display when it comes to animation.
The title's reversal of the traditional children's game may be clever, but the forced justification, done through a flashback, is an annoying contrivance.