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Disney’s second 3D effort is definitely an improvement over their first outing, CHICKEN LITTLE. Relying far less on SHREK-like antics, the film economically moves forward holding on to its central thread — its main character’s search for family. The ending delivers so well that all the problems that came before are easily forgotten.

Lewis (Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry) is an orphan, who creates wacky inventions. After yet another disastrous adoption interview, Lewis decides to build a memory device so that he can remember his mother, who he is convinced didn’t give him up because she didn’t love him, but because she had to out of circumstance. However, during the science fair where he’s about to unveil his new device, he is visited by a boy from the future named Wilbur Robinson (Wesley Singerman, A CHARLIE BROWN VALENTINE), who warns him that a shifty Bowler Hat Guy (director Stephen J. Anderson) is out to steal his invention. Eventually, Lewis and Wilbur get stuck in the future and Lewis promises to fix the time machine as long as Wilbur takes him to see his mother.

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