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Can the Mallard family survive their first family flight? Jeffrey Harris checks in with his official review of Illumination's Migration.

Illumination, maker of “Despicable Me,“ “Sing” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” has built its animation empire by mostly staying close to a child-like outlook. Illumination’s in-house mascots, the Minions, are basically themselves careening toddlers. But the studio’s latest, “Migration,” carries a faintly more parental perspective. Its central character is a father duck, Mack Mallard […]

"Migration" is very comfortably the second-best heron-featuring movie in theaters right now. Hayao Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron" is far richer in both its imagination and its menagerie of avian life.

Turning “The White Lotus” creator Mike White loose on an animated movie from the “Minions” gang might have seemed fraught with irreverent potential, but the result, “Migration,” follows a familiar, not-particularly-inspired flight plan. About the best one can say about this mildly fun film is that it runs a brisk 80-something minutes, meaning parents can take the kids and have time left over for other holiday errands.

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN