Abominable

THE GIST: A teenage girl discovers a young yeti hiding out on the rooftop of her building. He ran away from a secret laboratory, where they were doing experiments on him, and is lost. Together with a couple friends, she decides to help him get back to his family, which lives on Mount Everest, before he's re-captured by his former captors.

Abominable is touted as being from the same studio that brought us How To Train Your Dragon, but it hardly deserves to be lumped together with the latter's utter originality and charm.

Don't get me wrong, Abominable is a cute little movie with a totally new and adorable character, but it lacks the magic of other animated tales and likely their staying power as well.

Furthermore, the yeti is given such powers that it's impossible to imagine him getting captured or that his tribe wouldn't be able to get him back. Powers like that, therefore, are only given to make sure he can get his friends out of trouble, but not to help himself, and that is a failure of imagination on the part of the writers, in my opinion.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Do absolutely check this movie out, especially if you have little ones to entertain, just don't expect to find another classic here.

Grade: 6