By Emilio Frenk
Director: Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland
Cast (Voice): Andy Samberg, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Kelsey Grammer, Katie Crown, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Anton Starkman, Stephen Kramer Glickman and Danny Trejo.
Rating: Excellent
Warner Bros Animation and Director Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors) bring “Storks” a funny animated movie that I was impressed with the results.
The story centers in Junior (Andy Samberg) a stork who is very popular for the delivery company he works for and constantly makes an effort on earning the trust and admiration of his boss Hunter (Kelsey Grammer) so he can have a raise.
Everything will change for Junior when he is about to have his chance when Hunter asks him to get rid of Tulip (Katie Crown) the last remaining human that the company has.
What started as an easy task it becomes a nightmare when accidentally Tulip reactives the machine that makes babies and a baby girl appears.
Now Junior and Tulip have to deliver the baby to the family that order itbefore Hunter finds out who will avoid at any cost the delivery of the creature.
One of the things that I found interesting in “Storks” was that despite of being an animated movie it doesn´t loose the comedic elements that Nicholas Stoller added in his direction and in his screenplay. The characters of the movie have a lot of heart and the ones that I laughed the most was both the Alpha and Beta Wolves who are played by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
I consider Nicholas Stoller as one of the greatest comedy directors on the business today and here he delivers the goods and teams up with Doug Sweetland who makes his feature debut and previously worked with Pixar in movies like “Toy Story” and “Monsters Inc”.
I have been impressed with the animation genre this year since most of the movies has been really good in terms of story and the concepts are truly original. Movies like Zootopia, Finding Dory, Kubo and the Two Strings and many other prove my point and I wouldn’t be surprised if this movie can score an Academy Award Nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Andy Sandber’s interpretation of Junior is hilarious and I couldn’t stop laughing of his performance and I think he is one of the most talented comedians on this industry.
I was very pleased with “Storks” for his humour and it`s well made animation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.