Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

Yet again... zero subject. And it's not the lack of new movies. More like the lack of inspiration in choosing something, or time for a backup option. It's been a while since I've watched an animation and "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" had a time-travel factor somewhere in its synopsis. I wasn't expecting much from an animation, but still convinced me to watch it. And up to some point it actually seemed promising...

We have a situation of a wonder dog (obviously fluid in English) = Mr. Peabody, with a level of intelligence that's higher than the average of the human race, who after graduating countless PhDs, becoming a successful entrepreneur, proving its talent in culinary arts, and many other accomplishments, decided to adopt a baby. Young Sherman, who completes the title. Well, young Sherman, in his first day of school had a conflict with Penny Peterson, an obnoxious class mate. Well, for cooling down the conflict we're moving to a peace dinner organized by Peabody for the two families, and from there it's just a step to the children running away using - "the WABAC" - a time machine, obviously part of the garage inventions belonging to Mr. Peabody.

Sorry, but I'm really in zero mood to move forward with the story. Up to half of its duration, the action is relatively decent and seemingly educational for children = it takes you the ancient Egipt, the the French revolution, to the Italian Renaissance, to the Trojan war, and also packs in some historical characters. From half on it's getting totally cringe though, throwing everything into a chaos of temporal distortions without any logic reasoning behind and making a real salad mixing all history references together (which actually you can see coming, but you hope it won't get there). It's obvious that the movie doesn't target quantum physics graduates in its public, and neither people with a PhD in history, but 1) for kids some ideas are pushed a bit too much towards absurdity losing any initial intention of educational value and 2) for adults the funny moments are simply weak and stupid. Or maybe I just wasn't in the right mood when I watched it. But I don't have a WABAC machine to return there and check it out.

Rating: 2 out of 5