Cert PG
80 mins
BBFC advice: Contains mild violence
Thank goodness. Hopefully, that is the end of the catalogue of fart jokes until the Easter Holidays.
Yes, half-term has meant a welter of kids' movies at the cinema and the latest up was Taedong Park and Mauricio De la Orta's Jungle Shuffle.
This is the latest in what seems to be a neverending list of children's films with a conservation theme and during which the animals are good and humans are bad.
It is as if George Orwell were still with us.
Anyway, the star of this particular show is a coati called Manu, voiced by Drake Bell.
"Hold on", I hear you cry, "What is a coati?"
It turns out that it is a raccoon although I am not too sure they come in orange, pink and blue varieties which are represented in Jungle Shuffle.
Anyway, Manu is an adventurous type and has the eye for the coati king's daughter (Jessica DiCicco).
Sadly, he is a bit clumsy and one of his particularly oafish moments result in him being banned from the coati community.
However, despite his exile, his belle still loves and believes in our misunderstood hero and she is rewarded when he leads the rescue attempt when she is kidnapped by humans.
Jungle Shuffle is low on plot ambition, nodding in the direction of many other films (spot the King Louis Jungle Book reference).
Its dialogue is as predictable as its conclusion (with the exception of the bizarre hybrid dinosaur) and its graphics are below the standard of much of the animation around nowadays.
With so many children's pictures around I can't see why the youngsters would be opting for this one.
Reasons to watch: reasonably breezy animation
Reasons to avoid: goes over the same ground as so many other cartoons
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 4.5/10
Star tweet
Mauricio De La Orta #Manu trying to make sense of what's happening to the #jungle in #JungleShuffle, a film I had the pleasure 2 coDirect