Jungledyret Hugo: Fræk, flabet og fri

Since I come from Denmark, I'm quite familiar with Jungledyret Hugo. It was one of the earliest movies I remember from my childhood. The first two movies were good children's movies.

This one, however, is filled with too much repetition from earlier installments and it is done in CGI which makes Rita seem bald and magically gives Hugo a belly button. Was this necessary? Rita loses some of her personality without that spiked hair she had in the previous movies.

The songs are much in the same way as the first movie. Not as good except Rita's Lullabye in the middle of the movie, which was sweet and hummable. And then we get a villain song about animal experimenting with unnecessarily spooky imagery.

Speaking of villains, we have four villains in this movie and they are all from either the TV-series or the previous movies. It could have worked, but it gets to complicated and you can tell by the way too abrubt ending.

The voice acting was like in the previous movies good, but some of the characters had lost their innocent charm because of some juvenile humour. I am talking about the monkeys Zik and Zak, which are shown in the trailer for the movie. And again, is it only because of money they couldn't make it in hand drawn animation? Even The Land Before Time's endless sequels did not succumb to scrap every trace of the hand drawn look.

For kids it may be okay to distract them, but I did not enjoy it very much.