![]() ![]() Ice Age is the one that started it all, and in my view, it remains Blue Sky's best work. Still, there's a good bit to enjoy in this uneven-but-charming CG comedy, including a scene-stealing sidekick named Jeff. ![]() While the animation remains strong, and the voice performances are dependably decent from our star-studded voice cast, Spies in Disguise squanders a lot of its fun potential, resulting in a mediocre curtain call for the 30-plus-year-legacy of this inconsistent animation company. While the jokes consistently remain inspired, the comedy doesn't reach its full heights by a plot that favors familiar beats and shallows attempts at sentimentality. As gleefully goofy as that premise can be, the movie's free-for-all silliness is undermined by the story's paint-by-numbers approach. Spies in Disguise, based loosely on 2009's short film, Pigeon: Impossible, was an appealingly bizarre buddy spy comedy, one that saw a special secret agent (Will Smith) unwittingly teaming up with an intelligent-but-befuddled young scientist ( Tom Holland) when he's accidentally transformed into a pigeon. Perhaps it's only fitting that Blue Sky Studios' final film went to the birds. ![]()
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