In a year when a lot of big-screen animation felt like it came rolling off the video game assembly line, a little originality goes a long way.

Strange and kind of meandering.

Here is an overproduced, oversugared semi-animated children's fantasy adventure from Luc Besson that made me want to cringe into my plush seat, never to re-emerge.

Cute enough and cool enough at times that I would take all four of my nephews to see it, but minimal cute and cool isn't enough for the long haul.