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Title: Would give it no stars, were that an option.
Review: My 5 year old daughter and I saw this last night in a hotel room. I read the story's synopsis and saw it was rated G and thought that, at the very least, it would be entertaining to her. It was dreadful. Despereaux really becomes a bit player among other story lines that are all dark and sinister. When the princess is bound in the dungeon about to be eaten by rats, I really could not believe it! I also thought (and I have never read the book, so perhaps I'm wrong) that some of it was a rip off from ratatouille...the appreciation of the soup, the rat guiding the human, and the one head evil rat, to my mind, was a rat version of the snooty food critic Anton (?). At any rate, this movie literally made my daughter cry and she spent a good part of it under her blanket. I ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT RECOMMEND IT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
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