Mr. Peabody, the most accomplished dog in the world, and his mischievous boy Sherman, use their time machine - The WABAC - to go on the most outrageous adventures known to man or dog.
Mr Peabody And Sherman
Dreamworks delivers two characters from a 1960s’ TV series and thrusts them into the 21st century digital spotlight.
And what’s not to like for children... when the world’s most accomplished dog in a bow-tie has legally adopted a boy?
Ty Burrell voices Mr Peabody, a bespectacled Nobel prize-winning scientist, world-renowned explorer and double Olympic gold medal winning athlete.
Ten-year-old Max Charles, who played the young Peter Parker in The Amazing Spiderman, is his young charge, Sherman.
With Mr Peabody able to drop Sherman off at school in a cute, red scooter and sidecar, all is well until their ‘way back’ time machine is used for a joyride to impress Sherman’s friend Penny (Ariel Winter).
As well as trying to make sure that a hole they’ve torn in the universe doesn’t threaten the course of world history, ancient and modern, Mr Peabody’s most difficult challenge is learning to be a parent at the same time.
And that won’t be easy when son Sherman has been shamefully accused of biting a classmate.
Director Rob Minkoff launched his career by co-directing The Lion King. He then made Stuart Little, but has struggled to recapture that early form.
This film is inventive, fascinating and endearing but also sketch-lite, a trifle dull in colour-muting 3D and emotionally detached – what boy would keep referring to his ‘dad’ as a ‘mister’?
Moreover, Burrrell’s voice work as Mr Peabody could never be as appealing as Tom Hanks’ Woody in Toy Story and Free Birds has already taken us time travelling this winter.
Mr Peabody & Sherman originated as supporting features in the 1959-64 US TV series which in turn became the more disappointing film The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle in 2000.
The score is by Edward Scissorhands’ Danny Elfman with a new Peter Andre song ‘Kid’ seeing the credits out.
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