Storks

There’s a nagging sense “Storks” is basically what “The Angry Birds Movie” should have been earlier this spring. Likable, heartfelt and sweet in all the right places, Stoller and co-director Doug Sweetland have put together a charming surprise that’s as joyful and friendly as it is funny and well-meaning, and establishes Warner Animation Group as an impressive new player in the animation field.

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Storks, the first animated effort by writer/co-director Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors), introduces a world where the titular avians have given up on manufacturing and delivering babies and now ferry packages for an Amazon-like delivery service, Cornerstore.com.

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In a year filled with exceptional animated animal films, Storks stands tall and definitely delivers.

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Zippy and zany, cute and cuddly, “Storks” manages to balance wild humor with winning heart—for the most part.

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The Lego Movie brought with it the hope that the studio might reclaim some of the animation territory it has long ceded to other studios. Storks, though, is just another okay cartoon.

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Storks is at times cacophonous and overly busy, and the animation tends toward the goofily humorous rather than the spectacular. However, Stoller manages to pull off a third act and emotional resolution that's genuinely moving.

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In this age of billion-dollar, candy-colored, fully digital child-distraction movie-making, the new chatty-animal adventure comedy Storks wouldn't have to be good in any way to be wildly profitable.

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If you’re one of those people with small children who have been balking at the question of where babies come from, Storks is here to buy you a little more time.

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But even given its insipid A-story involving management-bound Junior's (Andy Samberg) burgeoning and promotion-threatening affection for human orphan Tulip (Katie Crown), who was the last baby off the assembly line before it was shut down, Storks's zany thrust occasionally wins out.

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Andy Samberg leads a frenetic animated comedy, about a stork who wants to deliver babies again, that's all noise and no fun.

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'Storks': Super annoying animated adventure,with Adam Samberg, Jennifer Aniston, Kelsey Grammer.

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Storks delivers its package, but it’s a bundle of just-okay, not joy.

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This film, directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, is a harmless enough way to occupy a youngster for an hour and a half. It’s just not especially rich in extraordinary characters or moments.

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Storks flutters like a bird with a broken wing – it never quite gets off the ground.

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Storks is uncomfortably unfunny and tonally confused, primed to leave children with so many questions for parents to awkwardly stumble over during any post-screening car rides home.

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Once proud deliverers of babies to the world's expectant parents, storks have now changed their business to parcel delivery.

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Less enjoyable than making a baby but more enjoyable than raising one, the animated feature Storks delivers a bouncing bundle of blah.

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The whole movie seems to be on fast-forward, with crushingly brainless dialogue, hollow imagery and no way of slowing down the febrile action or making sense of the chaotic plot.

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