Review of Turbo

I'm might not be the target demographic, but regardless of that, I don't think a 'kids' movie should necessarily mean, it should be dumbed down. Kids deserve more constructive adept story-telling. Some of the best films out there are kids' films because they aren't treating kids like they're stupid. They're simply dealing with themes, children deal with or are interested in but in a sophisticated manner. Yeah this film is for kids…definitely… if they were drop on their head. It's not one bit challenging to watch. It often follow a really clichés and predictable formula that other films done better. In this example, 2007 Pixar's Ratatouille. The movie was almost exactly the same as Ratatouille. Animal, who idolizes a human on TV, who has a disapproving brother, then teams up with another human. It really just felt a cheap and Lazy phone in, movie. Directed by David Soren, and product by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The movie is about an ordinary garden snail, Theo AKA Turbo (Voiced by Ryan Reynolds) whose dream to become a racecar driver. Set in Los Angeles, his obsession with speed and all things fast has made him an outcast in the slow and cautious snail community, and a constant embarrassment to his older brother, Chet (Voiced by Paul Giamatti). Demoralized, Theo wanders onto a freeway to admire the traffic only to suddenly, get a freak accident when he gets sucked into the supercharger of a drag racer, fusing his DNA with nitrous oxide. The next day, when Theo wakes up, finding himself with superhero speed and accuracy. With this great power, Turbo set off on adventure to become the fastest snail in the world. I find it ironic that the movie is called Turbo, but it's rather slow paced. The whole message kinda get lost in the slow speed of this film as good things that relate to his dream just tend to happen to fall into his lap. It's kinda saying to children, don't go out and seek your dream. Your dream will come to you. I can sympathetic say that this movie present the insanity, dreaming the impossible as a joke. It doesn't tell you how to achieve greatness. This movie is full of false answers. That isn't a great message. The movie doesn't really follow Turbo that much. This movie should be called The Dude in the Taco truck instead of Turbo. It seemed like it was more focus the direction of Tito (Voiced by Michael Pena) and his brother, Angelo (Voiced by Luis Guzman) whom dreams to revive the strip mall in which his brother and him work at. It could have made the movie a lot funnier from their perspective. The interactions between human and snail was a little desperate, silly and uninspiring for me. The movie humor is a bit odd, as most of the jokes come off as very offending racial insensitive stereotypes. The worst had to be the Kim Ly (Voiced by Ken Jeong) whom come across, as the most annoying character in the film. It's not the best voice acting, I have saw in a film. For me, the jokes were mostly misses than hits in the funny bone. The movie felt more like a Verizon plugs than an actual Verizon commercial with the repeatable dialogue. The whole concept seem a bit too unrealistic in tone, even for a kid movie, like how Turbo was even allow to race in the Indianapolis 500 since first off, he is a car, and second off, he is a snail. I haven't saw a really bad animal sport movie since the days of 1997's Air Bud. The movie is an insult to anything smart. It took artistic license in everything. Biology. Chemistry. Physics. The animation was alright for the most part. The 3D is watchable and enjoyable. The film did had some success, as the film has been followed by a television series, titled Turbo FAST (Fast Action Stunt Team) which first aired on Netflix on December 24, 2013. Overall: For a kid movie, this movie is very forgettable. There are better animation movies out there than this. I wouldn't be racing to get this movie.