Adventure and Animation film by director and producer Reinhard Klose and Holger Tappy. In the Okavango Delta in Africa, these key figures, including Meerkat called Billy and the Lion named Socrates, are embarking on a perfect adventure to adapt to their everyday reality.
If you kitted Al Gore out in a furry animal costume and put him on a soapbox you'd have a rough idea of the environmental message trumpeted in this harmless kids' fare.
What dooms the film to ordinariness are the animals themselves, so lacking in memorable characteristics that parents will most likely spend the 90 minutes guessing which celebrity voice artists have been busy earning themselves a nice Christmas bonus.
Dismal, frequently dull, badly written European animation that squanders its talented cast (and James Corden), fails to include any decent jokes and mangles its central eco-friendly message.
