Felix and the Hidden Treasure – family animation flounders as satire
Last modified on Tue 1 Jun 2021 05.01 EDT This is a semi-entertaining, reasonably decent family animation that begins promisingly with a swell of adventure as a young boy sets sail in a boat in search of his missing dad. But after a couple of hastily resolved peril-at-sea moments (âWeâre done for! Weâre saved!â) the script lurches into a bizarrely un-childfriendly storyline about a secretive cult. The boy is 12-year-old Felix (nicely voiced by Daniel Brochu), who lives in Quebecâs Magdalen Islands with his mum and little sister. Two years earlier, his fisherman dad wa...