If you’ve seen Krusty the Klown being put on trial for
robbery, Tom Cruise teaming up with Hawkeye or heard Edna Mode get unsettlingly
excited about how indestructible clothing is, then you’re familiar with
animation superstar Brad Bird. Starting out in the formative years of The
Simpsons, shaping the show into what it is now, he went to blaze a trail
through the industry with his feature films from the
cult religious classic The Iron Giant to the universally lauded
The Incredibles. Then, in 2012, he made the transition to live-action with the surprisingly awesome Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. With this kind of filmography behind him, in case all this gushing didn’t
make it obvious enough, I was
really looking forward to this latest film from one of my favourite directors. But, given the
divided reaction to it so far, how did it turn out?
