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When the animation company ILLUMINATION puts out a movie, you expect a well told story with beautifully rendered animation. With “Migration,” those expectations are not only met, but they are also exceeded. We meet the Mallard family as they leisurely relax in a beautiful, New England Pond. Father Mack (Nanjiani) and mom Pam (Banks) spend their days watching their youngsters – Dax (Caspar [...]
French-born artist, writer, and director Benjamin Renner is likely not a household name or one most kids will recognize. Unless they’re already enough of an ani
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.