I thought it was beautifully animated but boring as hell.

Passes the time.

"In a post-Ratatouille world, an animated film about rodents and fine cuisine is the exact opposite of original." - Nick Schager

+ pretty good

The animation not quite you-know-who, the story nothing like you-know-who. Clearly aimed only towards the kids - no pop culture references here. Cute little mouse, though.

It isnt a bad film if you are very young I guess, however there is nothing for the older amimation fans in this film.

The Tale of Despereaux doesn't exactly reflect the enchantment and nostalgic appeal of the novel, but it gets the basics right. The animation is phenomenal and its equally matched up with some marvellous voice acting from Hoffman and Broderick. Still sort of average in its ordinary form.

I really donīt understand those bad criticks in that case. Despereaux is one of the most charming cgi movieīs of the last years in my mind. the animation is close to pixar niveau, great voices, a handsome "hero" with great ambitions.funny & heartwarming, a nice fairytale!

Charming animated fairytale with beautifully rendered settings and solid voice acting.

Despereaux has a good nostaligc feel and generally works pretty well, although obviously directed solely at younger cinema-goers from the outset. The CGI animation is very impressive and the film is refreshingly free of any kinds of modern pop culture references, leaving the reasonably interesting world portrayed on screen to set the medieval scene alone. Let down slightly by the story and a few plotholes, I still found it pretty enjoyable and definately slightly above the usual CGI standard.

nothing special....

I really really want to love this movie, but its not happening. Despite all the great production aspects of this film, the plot just sucks so much, so disjointed and too many characters, meandering around aimlessly. On the plus side: Beautiful animation, a story with actual danger, death, and murder, above-average voice work (Tony Hale!), and no pop culture references, Smashmouth songs, or hip-hop dance sequences.

the story managed to get me pretty excited with so many things happening, but along the way had become disjointed and overbearing. dustin hoffman (i'm pretty sure im going to start calling him the hoff from now on), anyway the hoff offers some great voice acting and portrays a complex character, whereas broderick's character crosses the line of innocence and into one-dimensionalism.

I loved the book so to no surprise I really liked the film. Broderick was the perfect choice to voice Despereaux. I really suggest seeing it, even if some critics and others don't. Grade: B Plus

Animation was good... voice acting was very good. Story felt simplistic and yet still had some plot holes. It's not gonna bowl you over with how great it is, but you won't demand your money back or anything.

Major disappointment: slow, pointless, predictable, poor story.

An engaging animated fairy tale. It won't blow you socks off like some others and the intertwined storylines might be a bit complicated for the younger audience but a nice (and different) animation style and god voice acting.

Okay Movie

This was a cute movie, but had it stayed true to the book, it would have been a lot better. The whole vegetable man, what was that about? And the roscuro character was developed totally different in the book, alot darker. It had alot of the good lines from the book, but alot were left out. Kate DiCamillo is an awesome author, its just a shame this didn't make a good transition.

The book is great, but the movie is horrible.

Ratatouille Wannabe.