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63Modest, unassuming fare for younger children.
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50The film is gentle and carries a simple moral.
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40A bland, well-meaning mishmash that never coheres into a dramatic whole.
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38An innocuous family feature that's too little/too late in the fast-moving world of feature animation.
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A lame duck.
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38A brightly colored but terminally dull cartoon.
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30At times, both swans and humans appear oddly out of sync with their flat backgrounds, while the film's few musical flights of fancy never achieve visual liftoff.
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30As with most non-Disney animated features, Trumpet of the Swan does make the Mouse look like a genius.
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Nothing quite works about The Trumpet of the Swan, one of those animated films that make you realize how hard it is to strike the right tone for a family film.
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30Bland animated musical offers little to charm adults with fond memories of the book, and even tykes are likely to become bored by the halfway point.
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A pox on the man's (E.B. White) memory.
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25Upbeat but generic songs (one performed by Little Richard) and jazz lines add a little energy but the film feels less like a feature than an expensive ad for the upcoming video.
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20A clumsy, witless cartoon version of E.B. White's rather uncelebrated children's story.
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20Stiffly animated and featuring uninspired songs.
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20A shame, this frenetic mess, as there were loads of reasons to be hopeful.
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3This film is far too childish for any adult's liking and the music becomes so boring that most people would switch the TV off before half-way through.