AbominableMovie is adorable—but this animated 'How to Train Your Yeti' movie can't get by on charm alone, says Peter Travers. Our review
The first major co-production between DreamWorks and China’s Pearl Studio, Abominable — a warm and fuzzy animated guide book they could have titled— is good family fun as far it goes. It also could have gone further. The Chinese setting and characters are welcome and beautifully rendered, as is the film’s human protagonist, Yi , a teen girl who’s been hit hard by the death of her father. It’s not that her strict mother and dumpling-making grandmother don’t bring on the love. They do.
Our heroine isn’t fooled however, and neither are her besties, tiny Peng and the arrogant stud Jin . The trio makes the journey from the streets of Shanghai across the Gobi desert to the cliffs and mountains where Everest hopes to be reunited with his parents. It should be mentioned that writer-director Jill Culton (
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