Storks

Storks is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by the Warner Animation Group and RatPac-Dune Entertainment. It is directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland (the latter in his feature debut), written by Stoller and stars the voices of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Stephen Kramer Glickman, and Danny Trejo. It premiered in Los Angeles on September 17, 2016, and was released six days later in 3D, IMAX and conventional formats.

Plot
Storks deliver babies -- or at least they used to. Now, they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior (Andy Samberg), the company's top delivery stork, lands in hot water when the Baby Factory produces an adorable but wholly unauthorized girl. Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble, Junior and his friend Tulip (Katie Crown), the only human on Stork Mountain, race against time to make their first baby drop before the boss (Kelsey Grammer) finds out.

Good Qualities

 * 1) For Warner Animation Group's second animated film as well as first animated film without the assistance of Lego since Back in Action, the animation is highly bright, colorful, and bouncy with slapstick reminiscent of Warner Bros.' very own Looney Tunes.
 * 2) Director Nicholas Stoller successfully made the transition from hilarious adult comedies like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors, to equally animated funny family-oriented fare, like this movie as well as Doug Sweetland.
 * 3) A lot of heartwarming moments with the main trio, highly resembling that of real budding parents.
 * 4) The film excels in absurd, verbal, and quick humor, wolf pack are very comedic, such an example would be the Wolf pack led by a animated version of Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key.
 * 5) A highly compelling score provided by The Good Dinosaur composer Mychael and Jeff Danna with "Holdin' Out", performed by The Lumineers as part of its soundtrack.
 * 6) The rapid-fire snark between the main characters of Tulip and Junior hearken back to workplace comedies of the 1930s, which is definitely an acquired taste in the post-narrative style of humor found in kids entertainment today.
 * 7) Hunter is a great and entertaining villain.
 * 8) Excellent voice work, most notably from Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, and Ty Burrell.
 * 9) Some really inventive concepts that work in it's fantasy-esque premise, such as a more mechanical take on the original Stork fable, having babies conceived by machines.
 * 10) * Even though the idea of storks delivering babies is more of an American cultural idea, there is global awareness of it. It’s a great metaphor for not talking to your kids about where babies come from, which is a universal issue for parents.
 * 11) Unlike most animated kids characters, Nate Gardner is a character that doesn't resort to clichés and complain about his overworked parents, but uses their clueless attitudes to his advantage.
 * 12) The babies are highlights of the film, from neat comedic moments to just being adorable.
 * 13) "Huh muh nuh ma-nuh."
 * 14) The cinematography is cute and gorgeous.
 * 15) Junior and Tulip are both likable and fun main characters.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The plot is extremely thin, which is virtually an extended sitcom-sized premise stretched into an epic road-trip format.
 * 2) Stephen Kramer Glickman's character, Pigeon Toady, is a highly unlikable character with a highly annoying and cringe voice and too few funny moments to make up for it.
 * 3) The pacing moves at lightspeed, skimming through its 87 minute runtime without any breathing room to savor the experience or give its characters the time and tension to build any real catharsis or change.
 * 4) Hunter's death was nothing more than a Disney villain cliché and a little too exaggerated.
 * 5) The storks themselves could have been modeled better. They look nothing like storks and instead resemble gulls, especially Jasper.
 * 6) Plothole: If storks stopped delivering babies 18 years ago, then where did Nate come from?

Reception
Storks received decent reviews, who praised the animation, humor and voice acting, but criticized the screenplay. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 66% based on 138 reviews and has an average rating of 6.10/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Colorful animation and a charming cast help Storks achieve a limited liftoff, but scattershot gags and a confused, hyperactively unspooled plot keep it from truly soaring.". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 56 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.

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Trivia

 * This film is Warner Animation Group's first non-Lego animated feature film.
 * Different baby sound effects were made to provide both Diamond Destiny's voice and other babies' voices too.
 * The film's poster bears a sharp resemblance to the Shrek 2 release poster.
 * This is the first WGA films to have composed by Pixar composers.