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But surely they could have crafted a story truer to the TV original, without the sinister robots. And there are some lovely jokes for mums and dads. The charming opening sequence evokes Walt Disney’s pioneering animation at the start of Pinocchio. There’s also a robotic killer black-and-white copycat, which I expect will put the wind up all but the toughest under-fives. Meanwhile, evil Carbuncle wants to replace postmen with robots. It turns out Pat warbles like Ronan Keating (sung vocals provided by. So Pat enters a TV talent show (with a grumpy judge called Simon Cowbell), which handily offers an Italian holiday as the prize. A dastardly executive called Mr Carbuncle (Peter Woodward) refuses Pat his bonus, which was going to pay for a holiday in Italy. This feature-length version of the pre-school classic begins, as usual with Pat (voiced by Stephen Mangan), going about his rounds in happy little Greendale.īut the Royal Mail is streamlining. For me it was Postman Pat followed immediately by Godzilla, and frankly I’m not sure which was the scarier.

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Postman Pat: The Movie is one of the best family films to come down the pike this year, and not just because this year has also brought us The Nut Job and Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return.Postman Pat enters a TV talent contest in the movie, where he has a voice like Ronan Keating

The animation doesn’t attempt to recreate the Rankin/Bass–style texture of the original show, instead using a simple CGI which adequately services the surprisingly sharp and witty script.

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Meanwhile, an evil postal executive (Peter Woodward) creates robotic doubles of Pat, and a rival talent agent ( Doctor Who‘s David Tennant, letting his full Scottish burr fly) tries to sabotage Pat’s ascent. The setup is fairly standard: When Pat (Stephen Mangan) fails to receive the bonus he was going to use to take wife Sara (Susan Duerden) on an Italian vacation, he auditions for a Britain’s Got Talent–type show, unexpectedly becoming a national celebrity and Losing Sight of the Things That Really Matter. That Britishness hasn’t been toned down for the domestic release of the feature film, including borderline ethnic jokes about the Irish and Scottish, and that’s a good thing. but has never quite made a dent in America, possibly because it’s deeply British.

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Mike Disa’s entertaining Postman Pat: The Movie is based on a long-running stop-motion BBC children’s series which is hugely popular in the U.K.