Hayek is sincere and gives it her all but believability still turns up suspect. The lack of complexity and depth is what hurts much more than the ritualistic violence and stylised mayhem on display here.

The voicing is all done by child artistes and that’s a plus for greater attachment. The colour palette stays largely true to Schulz’s printed vision and Vince Guraldi’s iconic music finds voice in the new background compositions. Missing character summaries and lack of back stories hamper the enjoyment of this flip through of a 50-year-old antiquated Charlie Brown universe. While the computer animation renders faithfully, the 3D seems pointless. And familiarity alone does not generate enough excitement for this so-called fresh run at the cinemas.

This film is at best serviceable. Nothing exciting or extraordinary about it!

Veteran documentarian Guggenheim, who won the Academy Award for 2006’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and has critically acclaimed works like “It Might Get Loud” and “Waiting for Superman” behind him, appears to have lost focus in the brouhaha over a young girl’s much revered super-heroics. And that wasn’t really expected!

There’s so much waxing and waning that you just can’t hold tight to the good things. The climax is also quite chaotic and repelling-especially since it suggests there’s a no 3 on the way… certainly, that’s not something we want to go through again?

This film has the third dimension as mentioned in its moniker but frankly it’s just too flaky and insubstantial for any effect. There’s no thrill, nothing exciting, no tension, little of interest and certainly nothing inventive either. The 3D doesn’t add any novelty to the stale sub-genre staple that gets regurgitated here. What was once an interesting and intriguing concept has now turned turtle completely. It’s just too sad, disheartening and extremely tedious an outing to bear any fruit. Access at your own risk!

As a standard children’s adventure, this one is interesting enough but the horror part just doesn’t stick.

While the training and fight sequences are decently picturised there’s not much to be had in the dramatics and the extra stretches due to sentiment. The narrative is not very focused and the performances don’t have the grittiness to lend attachment.

The narrative is densely over-plotted with other-worldly incidents both magical and radical. It’s convoluted and has hallucinatory overtures that take you off course every time. The story itself lacks consistency and the visual architecture here reigns supreme over everything else.

The story never rings true, the antics are jaded and the performances – more than just lackluster- especially from all those heavy-weight stalwarts in the picture. The one person who makes a difference is Leem Lubany, who is refreshingly alive and sparkling with talent in a performance that gives the discordant, juvenile and unbecoming narrative some much needed excitement. It’s quite a harried ride, this one!