The Mallard family
If you can get your mind around the idea of a flock of ducks deciding they want to spend some quality time on the beaches of Jamaica, the goofy new animated cartoon film “Migration” may be for you.
The creators of “Minions” and “The Secret Life of Pets” invite you to meet the Mallard family and take a flight into the unknown with them in “Migration,” which opens in San Diego on Nov. 22.
Actually, dad Mack was happy paddling around their New England pond, but wife Pam is a bit bored and wants to show the kids – son Dax and daughter Gwen – a bit more of the world. She persuades Mack to take them south – via New York City – to tropical Jamaica. On the way, they’ll meet new folks, see things they never knew about, and learn more about each other than they’d ever imagined.
The screenplay (by Mike White, creator of “The White Lotus” and writer of “School of Rock”) features a terrific cast led by two former Emmy nominees: Kumail Nanjiani as dad Mack and Elizabeth Banks as the intrepid matriarch Pam.
Along the way they’ll run into Awkwafina as the leader of a New York City pigeon gang and Carol Kane as Erin the heron. They’ll also bump into Keegan-Michael Key as a homesick Jamaican parrot locked away in Manhattan restaurant and David Mitchell as the yogic leader a duck farm.
Yeah, it’s goofy, all right, and colorful and fast-moving. I’ll have to admit to being less fascinated watching parrots than people (though they do bump into a few peculiar humans as well), but “Migration,” at only an hour and a half, will give you some much-needed laughs.
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