Mini-Review: Very easily Verbinski's best film, the animation format is perfectly suited to his brand of visual indulgences in a way in which live action is not. Feels like the work of someone new to the format and not having yet learned the rules of the animated family film; its genuinely menacing, with characters placed in real danger and suffering real fatalities. The story and action are all surprisingly involving and the jokes actually funny, though I could have done with less toilet humour.