I have to admit this up front: When the ads for "The Tale of Despereaux" were running, I was not really insterested in this at all. It seemed too similar to "Ratatouille" or "Stuart Little". Having now seen it, it was better than I had expected, but I didn't really love it. Right off the bat, you spend a good 10 minutes following a character called Roscuro (Dustin Hoffman), a rat who dreams of a better life. So much time is spent with him, it started to look like we were watching the wrong movie. Finally, you meet Despereaux (Matthew Broderick), who is.....a mouse who dreams of a better life! To round out the main stories, you meet Miggery Sow (Tracey Ullman), who is....a commoner who dreams of a better life. I think you see where this is going. The movie is a story about never giving up and not accepting your expected station in life. It is a fine moral, but really nothing new and the three disparate characters you follow makes the film somewhat hard to follow. Once the characters are established and start to come together, it becomes easier, but it really takes too long to get to that point. This was not a horrible movie and has its entertaining moments and really a pretty good storyline, but it did not really "captivate" me. As it was over, I had a "take it or leave it" attitude. Grade: C-
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