– By Cate Marquis –
STORKS delivers laughs for kids and parents
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
STORKS takes the old myth of storks delivering babies as a starting point for an animated action/adventure comedy, where the storks have gone corporate and gotten out of the baby delivery business. Now, storks deliver merchandise for Cornerstore.com, a giant Amazon-like internet retailer, because now there are so many options if you want a baby. Or at least they thought they were out of the baby business, until a little boy uses an old form to place an order for a baby brother- an order that would never have been filled except for a glitch in the system that activates the long-shuttered Baby Factory.
A baby is in no way part of the company’s new business model, so an ambitious, efficient stork named Junior (Andy Samberg), who is in line to become the next CEO, has to deal with the problem – and quickly, before his boss Hunter (Kelsey Grammer) finds out about it and puts an end to Junior’s career. Part of the “glitch” is the storks’ sole human employee, Tulip (Katie Crown). Cheerful but klutzy 18-year-old Tulip grew up in the factory after her stork botched the delivery, but she has a knack for botching things up, particularly with her numerous untried inventions. Hunter had asked Junior to lay her off but ambitious Junior is also basically a nice guy, and it is while he is gingerly trying to handle that situation that the baby glitch happens.
The easiest way to solve the problem is to delivery the baby, but with an injured wing, Junior is forced to accept Tulip’s help to do that. Sure, they are on an island called Stork Mountain in the middle of the ocean, but what (else) could go wrong?
Fast and clever, STORKS will have the whole family laughing but anyone expecting realism from a movie about birds who used to deliver babies needs to chuck that thought.
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