Film Review: 'Paradoria'

Variety

The magical adventure between the calm boy and the lovely princess takes a major step of original stories in Universal's accomplished fifteenth animated feature.

"Paradoria" ultimately bears the most original resemblance to its source. Directors Steve Samono (who directed "Me & Mobo") and Gary Hall (who co-directed "Quest") give us a emotional story of a boy named Jamo (Finn Wolfhard) and a princess named Keena (AnnaSophia Robb) who both seek the outside world besides the kingdom.

However, King Kakas and the orc-like monsters raid the Paradorian kingdom causing them to get separated far away from the kingdom. While they began their new life, they started to become lost and they all have to find a way back home and stop the monsters.

With a beautiful animation and amazing vocal performances by Wolfhard and Robb, this film delivers a creativity of Universal animation since "Computeropolis" and "Despicable Me". Alan Menken, Cinco Paul, and Marc Shaiman's songs give Universal's enchanting answer to Disney's "Frozen".

In the bottom line, "Paradoria" is emotionally-iconic family fun musical animated adventure that can get a lot of giggles to the entire family.