Sammy's Great Escape – review

Sammy's Great EscapeProduction year: 2012Country: Rest of the worldCert (UK): URuntime: 93 minsDirectors: Ben Stassen, Vincent KestelootCast: Billy Unger, Carlos McCullers II, Cinda Adams, Isabelle Fuhrman, Pat Carroll, Wesley JohnnyMore on this film

This 3D animation from Belgium (actually a sequel to an earlier film called Sammy's Adventures) is really nothing more than a cut-rate knockoff of the 2003 Pixar-Disney classic Finding Nemo. Two leatherback turtles, Sammy and Ray, find themselves nabbed along with their cute hatchlings and sold off to be part of a huge aquarium show in Dubai. The script is flat, the storytelling is dull, and the animation is just sub-standard. There has to be some better family entertainment for the half-term holidays than this.