Culture shock for the over-nines: here is new Pat computer-animated, married, with a son called Julian (!) and the voice of Stephen Mangan puttering round a conspicuously inclusive Greendale. Stick-in-the-muds may cavil, but the only truly objectionable aspect of Mike Disa's modernisation is its reliance on that In-Cowell-We-Trust trope worn thin by recent kiddie sequels, necessitating its hero's participation in televised talent lo-jinks. Sly incidental jokes about Pat's place in the mediascape amuse, but The Lego Movie set the bar high for such knowing brand optimisation: Disa can't really satirise society's homogenised speed-freakery when his songs feature Ronan Keating and his animation looks scarcely finished.
Continue reading...Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/22/postman-pat-the-movie-review
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