If you had told me that a bunch of singing slugs acting as a Greek Chorus could have made me laugh as hard as that, I would have thought you were nuts. Then again, it is Aardman, the same folks who blessed us with Wallace and Grommit. Do NOT dis Wallace and Grommit. You will be smitten. They are sacred in our house. Silly is a state of grace.

This movie takes silly seriously. If you and your family don’t laugh your ass off, you’re dead.

I KNOW Roger Ebert panned it. Whenever I hear Roger Ebert I think, “Yes, the man who wrote, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens for Russ Meyers. I’m paying attention to his opinion because…?”