A Review of Despereaux by in2it.sg

Once upon a time there was a charming tale of a wee little mouse with wide-open eyes and ears as large as saucers. Named Despereaux Tilling, the mouse grew up, though not by much, to become a reader of books and the besotted friend of a lovely human princess named Pea. In time he saved the day, battling an army of rats, and won the hearts of millions of readers and eventually a contract with a Hollywood studio. This is how the book "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread" became a computer-animated movie, though without the rambling subtitle and as many eccentricities.

Fast forward to now and it becomes an updated version of the charming fairytale - cool and efficient, narrated by Sigourney Weaver where in the Kingdom of Dor, everyone was happy - the peasants were content, the rulers were fair and rats went on their daily business without being stepped on. All these because of soup. But all good times need to end someday and it certainly did when a rat named Roscuro fellinto the queen's soup, producing a fatal reaction.

The main difference between the book and the movie, while the former exudes charm, the movie overdoes the cute factor, largely caused by the heavy influence of Disney on animation.

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