As my title says, this movie was ethnically balanced. A good change for animation. Plus, it kept my 7 year old grand daughters attention. OH, my grand daughters bi-racial.
I thought it was a good movie for kids. I took my 7 year old grand daughter and it keep her attention for the whole 1 hour 21 minutes...including the credits. Only one cine had a little tongue and cheek feel. And most likely every child did pick up on it. Which was the monkey playing in the ice cream, but the little brown balls or nuggets that he was playing with wasn't ICE CREAM!! LOL!! But overall, I was glad my grand daughter and I went.
This movie was perfect in emphasizing the meaning of family and the will to survive. The 16 year old sister that was fighting to take care of her younger brothers stole the show!!! The anger she displayed was true to life. Her verenability near the end, but yet pleading with her aunt to allow them to stay, showed yet another layer of perfect sacrafice to her younger brothers. The Comedy for me was just right. I would say about 30% was comical and the rest was drama. It should that the aunt, like other family members didn't know how to love or receive love. All of the characters were perfect for this movie. I love me some Gladys Knight and Mary J. Bleige, they tore it UP!!!