The Tale of Despereaux
The story of several unlikely heroes: a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears, whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
8 October 1949, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
30 March 1950, Rutherglen, Scotland, UK
20 May 1959, New York City, New York, USA
15 April 1990, Paris, France
13 November 1953, Monroe, Georgia, USA
24 October 1947, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
8 August 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 March 1950, Miami, Florida, USA
4 May 1947, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
March 22, 2009
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January 31, 2009
Bland, over-stuffed, chaotic and ultimately underwhelming for both kids and adults.
December 19, 2008
[The directors] can't quite locate a core of buoyant energy in the film as a whole.
December 19, 2008
Despereaux is a little too desperate to be loved.
December 19, 2008
. The plot is too convoluted and there are too many characters to keep track of.
April 08, 2009
It amounts to less than the sum of its artfully conceived parts but remains a nice and visually interesting film.
December 19, 2008
The Tale of Despereaux may not be a classic, but it still has a lot of class.
February 11, 2009
The film looks great and the story is interesting enough for adults. It may be a little too complex and intense for young children.
December 22, 2008
It's like Ratatouille meets Upstairs Downstairs to go sort of cross-generational but it didn't work really on any level.
January 29, 2009
The cinematic equivalent of a cozy bedtime story, warmly told with loving care.
