| RATING: | 20% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
A perfect example of what has always been wrong with the Hollywood love of cliché and the merely dramatic over serious drama.
The puppy-love storyline is weak because it is performed and written so badly. The usual childlike empowerment issues are not treated with any due seriousness for children so that strength becomes the mere possession and expression of it rather than its most effective use and non-use.
This Tron rip-off makes the film no more than a characterless, humorless and purposeless race through the innards of a computer game - peppered with guest stars from the earlier films. Self-reference and self-parody is not enough to make an emotionally-involving drama and, although the film is short, the time spent watching it still drags. The family values’ ending comes too late to stave off a thankfully-brief flirtation with the idea of DVD-induced suicide.
Worst of all are the irritating 3D effects that do nothing but draw attention to themselves rather than serving any dramatic purpose. The equally-annoying 3-D glasses one needs to wear to watch this mess also add absolutely nothing to the work; proving that rubbish in three dimensions is still rubbish.
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