A Major Disappointment

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Sequels get worse over time. That is a common knowledge. When you go to see a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a... well, as a rule, you know what to expect.The problem with this certain movie is that it is below even such expectations.Lame humour. A story too simple for the full length animated movie. Same old characters (with the only addition of Grandpa Frost and couple more personalities). No real development.A story that happened at a New Year night, all in itself. It feels like... You know, It feels like a Christmas story. An amateur play of a Christmas story like the one you could see at school, with your children on a stage. Only you won't see your children in this one. And no Christmas, too.Or maybe you could remember an amateurish play done by paid actors at your son's 10-th birthday... No, really. This is not worth a cinema ticket unless you love these very characters so much. There's nothing in it beyond dozen familiar personalities doing same old stuff. And maybe a couple of stale-old jokes and gags.