This is How Movies Should Be Made

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This movie is so cute! It has all the stuff the rest of the CGI animated stuff has except for the humor displayed. But, we must keep in mind this is the first German CGI animated flick ever. So, maybe some of their humor is different from ours in the USA. Still, it makes it to nice, fun level.I loved all the characters, and the facial characteristics of them were wonderful and a delight to see. I will admit the rats in the chase sequence would be a bit scary for the wee ones, but I saw Bambi and cried my eyes out at their age. So, I think maybe the kiddies will be tough enough for this.I give it an 8 out of 10. Keep the kids under about eight from watching it. The rest? You've said worse around your kids by that time. Let them have a romp through Gaya, why not?

Personally I'm going to disagree with most of the reviews. I LOVED THIS MOVIE! I found the digital animation really amazing, especially the backrounds and character textures. While yes the voice overs seemed off, I didn't think the script was that bad. It had quite a few emotional scenes such as Boo and Zino talking about Zino being dumb and Atlanta and Zeek's little love thing. It also has good lessons for children such as non discrimination based on appearance and for girls, that they could be heroes too and were as strong as the boys. The movie has become a favorite in my house and I really hope the producers do a sequel for it.

Bad 08/15 story. They made the same failures like made in Final Fantasy(Spirits within). It's an standard, I would call it "american story". Not funny. And to technically without spirit.Probably I have watched to many Ghibli movies. And there is not one character I like. They are all stupid and to "designed".watch an good German made (animation-)movie watch "Obelix and Asterix in Amerika".Another tip: Watch this movie without sound, it's a really nice CG Animation without story.

Well, today I've finally watched "Back To Gaya" which I was eagerly waiting for. My anticipation was damped because of the bad trailer which had a bad synchronisation and did not help to make one curious about the movie. Fortunately the movie was much better than what I had expected. Actually it is quite good but it has three major timing problems:1. technically: the animation is not very good (not a single run cycle seems correct in this movie) 2. the pace: the movie seems to last longer than it is because of bad pacing 3. the jokes: first of all there are too few and second they have a bad timing. Either you know the joke seconds before it is spoken or you miss it because you don't have time to laugh about itOn the other hand BTG is technically very well done (except the animation) has tons of places and objects, is beautiful colored and has a nice music. Everyone that likes CG-movies should see it, it's worth the money... all the other should give Brother Bear a chance - since it is much better than most people think =) Well, give it a try - both of them.