Review | The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear film review: bright Danish animation channels Roald Dahl heavily but has positive messages
This somewhat derivative tale of a journey taken inside a hollowed out giant pear to find a missing mayor is funny and full of positive messages for children
3/5 stars
This brightly coloured Danish animation may borrow heavily from Roald Dahl, but it has enough weird and wonderful elements of its own.
The story starts in Sunnytown – where, unsurprisingly, the sun always shines. When the beloved mayor JB (voiced by Henrik Koefoed) goes missing, the town goes into shock, not least because the vice-mayor is vying for his position and wants to build a new town hall, blocking out the sun. Any resemblance to a certain President of the United States is clearly coincidental.
When a message in a bottle washes up, hinting that JB is alive and stashed on a mysterious island, it’s enough to send Sebastian (Alfred Bjerre Larsen), a rather whiny elephant whose own great-grandfather is also AWOL, and his feline friend Mithco (Liva Elvira Magnussen), on a mission across the high seas.
