Smallfoot

Name: Smallfoot
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Family
Released: September 28, 2018
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Channing Tatum, Common, Danny DeVito, Ely Henry, Gina Rodriguez

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: September 28, 2018 | PG

Starring: Channing Tatum, Common, Danny DeVito, Ely Henry, Gina Rodriguez, James Corden, Jimmy Tatro, LeBron James, Yara Shahidi, Zendaya

Summary: Smallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple Yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all new story about friendship, courage and the joy ofSmallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple Yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all new story about friendship, courage and the joy of discovery.… Expand

Director: Jason Reisig and Karey Kirkpatrick

Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Family, Musical

Rating: PG

Runtime: 96 min

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Frank Lovece

Sep 26, 2018

Beautiful is the apt description for this hilarious masterpiece that embraces reason, celebrates truth and ultimately believes we're civilized enough to accept both. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Sep 26, 2018

It’s not often an animated children’s movie features lessons about critical thinking, especially when the movie on the whole is a zippy, silly, zany, cheery little tale with the obligatory upbeat musical numbers, wonderfully entertaining voice work from the eclectic cast, and a gentle, PG tone with nary a sequence that will have the little ones scurrying for cover under your wing. Read full review

Jane Horwitz

Sep 27, 2018

This entertaining fantasy has intellectual ballast, but it’s cleverly disguised. Read full review

Brent McKnight

Sep 25, 2018

It’s cute, it’s cuddly and Tatum is charming as the lovable, well-meaning goof. Young children who haven’t seen every trick and trope done better a thousand times will love Smallfoot, but for the rest, it’s instantly forgettable, like a 96-minute memory gap. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Oct 11, 2018

The conceit is nicely done, and the film’s unexpectedly heartfelt message about empathy and looking at the world through someone else’s eyes just about makes up for its bland animation, smart-arsed script and generic clappy-blah songs. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Sep 19, 2018

Smallfoot provides more complex food for thought than most mainstream animation, but the overall results are still disappointingly bland. Read full review

Oliver Jones

Sep 27, 2018

The humans in the film are blandly generic. But the yetis, while individually distinct, all share a much larger, troubling problem: they don’t have noses. Read full review

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VictorPinas

Jul 29, 2022

Yeti, you say? Then come on down and see Smallfoot and tell me what you think!

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Kibo

Feb 3, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Review of Smallfoot
While we were growing we’ve seen so many fictional movies which revolve around aliens and superheroes. All these movies were based on our perception about foreign objects. This movie is about how Yetis look at humans. It’s about how they, out of the fear of humans, create their own world at the top of the mountains where they knew humans couldn’t come because they couldn’t survive there. It is a fiction but has got a lot of realistic day to day things to teach us. First thing that it teaches us elders is about the responsibility towards our families. The Stonekeeper, who is also the leader of the clan, has been able to protect the village from humans for many years. Not only that, he has also been able to create such a mechanism that the village is completely cut-off from humans. Firstly, he made the villagers believe that their mountain was placed on a floating cloud. He also made them create the clouds through steam which they never knew they did. All they knew was that they were feeding the elephants holding the clouds. He made them believe in many such superstitions just to keep them away from danger. His only motive was to be ‘better safe than sorry’.
Percy, the human teaches us about integrity. Initially, he was tempted to create fake news about the Yetis with the help of his co-worker Brenda but later when he experienced the truth about them, he stood for them. He could’ve used all the media that he had on his phone to become rich, but he chose to delete them making people believe that the whole ‘Yeti’ thing was a hoax. He also teaches us about taking a stand for our friends.
Migo teaches us that the stones (our perceptions and assumptions) are not always right. We always need to dig deeper and find the truth even when it doesn’t look true and a lie is sometimes so evidently true. When the Stonekeeper showed him the visuals of how humans harmed Yetis in the past, it was quite evident to Migo because his first encounter with a human (Percy) too was not too friendly. However, he forced himself not to believe what he saw and continued pursuing the truth. Meechee, Kolka and Gwangi teach us about teamwork and confidentiality.
The most important lesson that I personally learnt is from Fleem, the pessimist. The best part is when he is counting the pros and cons before jumping off the cliff when the rest of his friends have already jumped. I hadn’t realized this until I watched it in the movie how important it is to take some major decisions thoughtfully. I personally have made many mistakes in taking hasty decisions.
Smallfoot is not just for kids. It has a much deeper meaning and learning even for adults. It teaches us integrity, responsibility, the passion of finding the truth and taking a stand for our friends.… Expand

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NaveenG

Oct 6, 2018

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While we were growing we’ve seen so many fictional movies which revolve around aliens and superheroes. All these movies were based on our perception about foreign objects. This movie is about how Yetis look at humans. It’s about how they, out of the fear of humans,Review of Smallfoot
While we were growing we’ve seen so many fictional movies which revolve around aliens and superheroes. All these movies were based on our perception about foreign objects. This movie is about how Yetis look at humans. It’s about how they, out of the fear of humans, create their own world at the top of the mountains where they knew humans couldn’t come because they couldn’t survive there. It is a fiction but has got a lot of realistic day to day things to teach us. First thing that it teaches us elders is about the responsibility towards our families. The Stonekeeper, who is also the leader of the clan, has been able to protect the village from humans for many years. Not only that, he has also been able to create such a mechanism that the village is completely cut-off from humans. Firstly, he made the villagers believe that their mountain was placed on a floating cloud. He also made them create the clouds through steam which they never knew they did. All they knew was that they were feeding the elephants holding the clouds. He made them believe in many such superstitions just to keep them away from danger. His only motive was to be ‘better safe than sorry’.
Percy, the human teaches us about integrity. Initially, he was tempted to create fake news about the Yetis with the help of his co-worker Brenda but later when he experienced the truth about them, he stood for them. He could’ve used all the media that he had on his phone to become rich, but he chose to delete them making people believe that the whole ‘Yeti’ thing was a hoax. He also teaches us about taking a stand for our friends.
Migo teaches us that the stones (our perceptions and assumptions) are not always right. We always need to dig deeper and find the truth even when it doesn’t look true and a lie is sometimes so evidently true. When the Stonekeeper showed him the visuals of how humans harmed Yetis in the past, it was quite evident to Migo because his first encounter with a human (Percy) too was not too friendly. However, he forced himself not to believe what he saw and continued pursuing the truth. Meechee, Kolka and Gwangi teach us about teamwork and confidentiality.
The most important lesson that I personally learnt is from Fleem, the pessimist. The best part is when he is counting the pros and cons before jumping off the cliff when the rest of his friends have already jumped. I hadn’t realized this until I watched it in the movie how important it is to take some major decisions thoughtfully. I personally have made many mistakes in taking hasty decisions.
Smallfoot is not just for kids. It has a much deeper meaning and learning even for adults. It teaches us integrity, responsibility, the passion of finding the truth and taking a stand for our friends.… Expand

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ahmedaiman1999

Dec 30, 2018

The main message is surprisingly refreshing, well-set, quite important, and above all, could appeal to and resonate with everyone whatever how old is he/she.

An issue I had with Pixar's Oscar-winner, Coco is that it has too many secondary messages that besides they were ridiculouslyThe main message is surprisingly refreshing, well-set, quite important, and above all, could appeal to and resonate with everyone whatever how old is he/she.

An issue I had with Pixar's Oscar-winner, Coco is that it has too many secondary messages that besides they were ridiculously excessive, they were intrusive, confusing that made me not even sure what the main moral was, heavy-handed, and completely unnecessary to the main plot. Fortunately, It's not totally the same case here. Of course, the other minor messages and lessons that are conveyed throughout the movie can feel redundant and annoyingly in-your-face, but the good thing is that they are never distracting nor unnecessary. They are justified either by the connection to the characters' arcs, or by the fact the every sub-plot lead to the other finely. In doing so, the main message has never been overshadowed, and was predominant at all parts of the movie.

Yes, the movie is literally split to a number of parts. But, alas, almost every part consists of a totally familiar, and infuriatingly predictable story that you can easily see how it will end a million miles away. Honestly, you can even readily predict the decisions the characters will make, nay the lines the characters will say!

The humor lacks originality just as the story does. This actually added insult to injury, because when I tried to pass over the fact I know how this plotline will end, I found myself watching some insufferably boring, and utterly bland and uninspiring visual gags that are just not funny. The Jokes in general in this movie are pretty lame. I didn't had a single laugh throughout the entire runtime of the movie, but I smiled a couple of times, to be honest.

So, it's clear that there are a lot of "I've seen this before" moments in this movie, and that shouldn't be surprising, for most of animated movies nowadays have this problem. But Smallfoot didn't settle on one generic story due to the episodic structure it has, and that's what amplified the feeling of familiarity, and made the clichés blatantly noticeable. But even the majority of the songs are totally unremarkable, and some of them are badly placed and feel interruptive, but all the songs are by no means bad. Actually, they are all good!

As much as I found the first fifty minutes of the movie kinda dull due to the formulaic storylines as I mentioned above, especially the first act which was moving in a most predictable pattern that even its absurdly fast pace couldn't save it from not being boring, there were some twists and turns that happened at the beginning of the third act that really elevated the whole movie. I won't say the new path the movie took after these twists, especially the major one, wasn't familiar. But the good thing is that it's not predictable. And I really mean that I finally didn't know how the movie would end, and I think that's the most important thing. Not to mention that I was really intrigued, and really excited to know what the characters would decide, what they would do next, and how the things would turn out. And surprisingly the movie kept surprising me till the very end.

The movie is filled with eye-popping colorful slapstick sequences that are just delightful to watch. The quality of the animation is top-notch, and the landscapes and the snow are simply dazzling. Let alone the well-designed characters.

The voice cast is solid, if not extraordinary by any means. I liked James Corden as the "Smallfoot", Percy, though. But it's Danny DeVito's vocal performance as Dorgle, Migo's dad, that I found quite unique and uncanny. Channing Tatum is fine as Migo, and the same goes with Zendaya as Meechee.

Smallfoot is so not nothingness, it's definitely somethingness! But I wish the story was as original as its message, and I wish the humor was as good as its animation.

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CineAutoctono

Sep 9, 2019

"Smallfoot" was a movie where its story because of its childish way is not so captivating but in the same way to see it is fun and entertaining, besides that the characters are good and their concept is simple to understand.

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ALAMLEDP

Jan 21, 2023

Smallfoot is an animated film produced by Warner Animation Group, which tells the story of Migo, a Yeti whose world is turned upside down when he encounters a mythical "smallfoot," or a human. The film is based on a book by Spanish animator Sergio Pablos and is aimed at children. TheSmallfoot is an animated film produced by Warner Animation Group, which tells the story of Migo, a Yeti whose world is turned upside down when he encounters a mythical "smallfoot," or a human. The film is based on a book by Spanish animator Sergio Pablos and is aimed at children. The animation is bright and cheerful, and the tone is light-hearted, but the film lacks originality and visual distinction. The plot is similar to other family-friendly films, and the animation is reminiscent of other movies produced by Illumination. The cast includes Channing Tatum, James Corden, Danny DeVito, Zendaya and Patricia Heaton, and LeBron James. The film is a lighthearted distraction for children and encourages them to be more inquisitive. However, it also contains a deeper message about the rejection of scriptural authority and questioning societal norms, and it ends with a heartfelt finale.
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Smallfoot es una película animada producida por Warner Animation Group, que cuenta la historia de Migo, un Yeti cuyo mundo se pone patas arriba cuando se encuentra con un mítico "pequeño pie" o humano. La película está basada en un libro del animador español Sergio Pablos y está dirigida a niños. La animación es brillante y alegre, y el tono es alegre, pero la película carece de originalidad y distinción visual. La trama es similar a la de otras películas para toda la familia y la animación recuerda a otras películas producidas por Illumination. El elenco incluye a Channing Tatum, James Corden, Danny DeVito, Zendaya y Patricia Heaton, y LeBron James. La película es una distracción alegre para los niños y los anima a ser más curiosos. Sin embargo, también contiene un mensaje más profundo sobre el rechazo de la autoridad bíblica y el cuestionamiento de las normas sociales, y termina con un final conmovedor.… Expand

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DolphinReviews

Jul 20, 2022

A painfully mediocre and annoying kids movie. Every time the character Fleem was on screen I wanted to reach through the TV and choke him to death.

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