grin erosion

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I appended a note to my below post, but apparently no one saw it.

I sat through the opening credits of "Were-Rabbit" with a big stupid grin on my face, ready to be delighted by Aardman once again. Slowly, methodically, the grin faded to a smirk, then to nothingness. Then I was stealing peeks at my watch. Was the movie bad? Oh no, not by any means. But it's an underwhelming successor to the delights of the W&G short films, or even to Chicken Run. Bloviated to 85 minutes here, perhaps W&G can't scale. Scenes without the lead characters were interminable and felt like padding. Unfunny, charmless padding.

An aside to parents: although we expect to be surrounded by your profundity-shrieking little savants at an animated film, it is not reasonable for you to turn the theatre into an off-leash area. Exercise your brats on your own time.