Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
“Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue” is not only one of the worst animated films of the year but is also a hideous and frightening film in almost every sense. The shrill and frantic implicit signals aimed at young kids are unfathomable to me.
To put it simply, “Gracie & Pedro” should be the last film any adult watches with any measure of enthusiasm. That target audience being young children, the film by the directors Kevin Donovan and even Gottfried Roodt is an abysmal distraction. As there is no sense of imagination or memorable moments in the film’s plot. Children as young as four years old will most likely be horrified by the designs of the characters who were intended to be friendly but are rubbery and mute for most of the rhetoric. This is the case for both overdramatic animals and their human counterparts. And for optimal film strategy, one would have rather been totally blind and sat inside a dark room.
Watching the film, kids would be more focused on the gruesome designs of the characters instead of the plot or any message.
“You might be thinking to yourself at the beginning. How awful can it get with voice actors like Susan Sarandon, Danny Trejo, Brooke Shields and Bill Nighy in the cast? But then it doesn’t take too much time to figure out that these veteran actors do not have a lot of screen time and if they do, their voices are so electronically modified that they can be hardly recognized.
Moreover, you will also find it quite difficult to overlook the fact that the incident which catalyzes the road trip adventure of the protagonists is completely fabricated and lacks logic. Of course, a documentary kind of approach is not what is expected from a movie with talking animals, but this is just ridiculous.
Gracie (voice of Claire Alan) is a high maintenance show dog to the extent that she is a Spaniel. You can tell this by the pink ribbon around her hair. Pedro (Cory Doran) is a former prostitute with a ruthless personality and a no-nonsense attitude. They fight like well, cats and dogs, which in this case just means hurling very lame, sitcom-style gags. However, when the family they are part of relocates to Salt Lake City, the two pets are placed in a small box and are forced to travel together in the hold of an airplane.
Seriously? Even the cheapest low cost carriers wouldn’t permit this sort of thing.”
Did they seriously expect each pet to be allowed on board in a specific carrier? And who are these stupid parents who allowed this idea? This is possibly pitched as a joke, watching these bickering animals to a limited space and make it somehow work, but it is ludicrous and simply inhumane.
In any case, Gracie and Pedro start fighting so harshly that it messes up the extremely complicated system of the cargo conveyor system. They do not board the aircraft and have to be guided by the goodwill of other people on buses and trains to get to Utah. Some of them want to help, like Sarandon’s rabbit Shades, who is in a magic show and is off to Las Vegas. (Yes, she’s wearing sunglasses, hence the name. This is the degree of originality that went into the script, which three people, for some reason, had to put into writing.) Others want to eat them, such as the condor voiced by Nighy, who is a sinister and brutal force who might terrify out the very audience this picture has been made for.
In other events, back in the home city of Salt Lake City, daughter Sophie (Bianca Alongi) and Gavin her mute younger brother, act realistically when they see that their beloved pets are missing from the place as they have seen them last.
They make a music video and it goes viral in a bid to find Sophie. Out of them all, Sophie has the most annoying voice because she talks the most being the only one with a strategy among confused adults.
Now if the condor character gives you goosebumps, wait till you get to the end, set in an eerie deserted fun fair with children’s lives at risk from a dilapidated roller coaster. Good times!
What about an animated feature film that’s entertaining to everybody and involves squabbling animals getting themselves into chaotic predicaments. I recommend any of the delights and inspired Wallace & Gromit shorts or features, or, quite frankly, anything else except this.
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