Ab durch den Dschungel

Why do they keep letting Rob Schneider do offensive ethnic stereotypes? Here he plays a monkey who's supposed to be Asian but sounds like a bad impression of Christopher Walken doing a bad Vietnamese accent.

Anyway, as you've probably gathered, the CGI is extremely ugly and the animation is stiff. Far be it from me to judge a book by its cover, but when the main feature of the film is visual action scenes, that's a big problem.

So they should have made up for it in plot, character building, etc, etc. But they didn't. The plot is just a bag of cliches. Save a princess, humans are destroying the rainforest, awkward guy becomes hero. Whatever. It's just a rehash of a bunch of cliche plots that have been done to death. Except this one has a dragon.

And the dialogue is extremely cringeworthy.

Nope, not even Rob Schneider could save this one.

It's not deadly dull and, were it an amateur production, it would be considered technically passable, but what a waste of time for everyone involved - both on the creating and the viewing side. People shouldn't waste money on this type of thing.

Honourable Mentions: Dragones: Destino del Fuego (2006). Marginally worse and uglier Peruvian attempt at CGI. Come on. Just use sock puppets and hire a decent writer if you can't afford to do proper CGI. Trust me, it'll be better.