We saw this for free too and it was not very good (Matt fell asleep). There are some animated films (Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Up, etc.) that are very good watching for adults and then there are some animated films that just aren’t. I saw a preview for this film yesterday and there were so many good bits in the preview, I found myself wondering why they didn’t all knit together nicely into a good movie.
Another for-free flick, this was quite enjoyable mostly because it wasn’t very good, but we expected that, seeing as how Hasbro (a-hem: toy manufacturer) is the first title card they put on the screen. I thought that, aside from Alexander Skarsgard who was a horrible actor, Rihanna was incredibly awful and I spent a lot of time wondering why they didn’t hire some nice black actress who could act and actually needed the money, while Matt was not too bothered by the both of them and couldn’t stand real-life Iraq hero Gregory D. Gadson who I thought was fine. So there’s a possibility that this might be a good movie after all for just the right person, although it’s a slim possibility indeed.
ps. I chose this poster because my friend is having a “thing” for Taylor Kitsch that parallels my Chris Hemsworth thing.