When I first watched this movie, I was in fourth grade and I'll admit, I loved it. It had a great environmental message and some good original songs to help move along the plot. However, now that I'm in 8th grade, I realize its cons outweigh its pros, but I still don't think its a terrible movie.

Bad qualities: The animation is less than impressive for something from the same year as Madagascar 3, Brave, and Wreck-it-Ralph. The scene where the monkey envisions various how to murder the parrot with a chainsaw and other weapons is extremely disturbing. It rips off elements of other animated films: the big cat's father dying and then coming back as a ghost to deliver important messages to his son is too much like The Lion King, as are the evil hyenas. The concept of a parrot raised as a pet being dumped in the wild not knowing how to fly is a lot like Rio. THE PARROT HAS TEETH.

Good qualities: It has a positive environmental message that isn't "humans are evil" (which is the case in Animals United). The original songs are mostly pretty good, my favorite being "Delhi Safari", which the jungle animals use to persuade Alex the parrot to join them on their quest. It also gets a reprise.

So yeah, I wouldn't really recommend this movie, but overall I don't think its an absolute abomination. Some effort certainly feels put into it at least.

We hadn't seen any Indian animated movies so I took a chance on it, and it's, well...interesting. As several other viewers have noted, there are some scenes that don't belong in a children's movie, which just pop up out of nowhere. The animation and singing are also not great. But its magic lies in the untraditional animal characters, which delighted my children. The tiger cub is very appealing, a kind of re-appropriation of sir khan as an animal hunted by humans; the bear, like Baloo, is a lovable joker; the monkey, like king Louis, is a maniacal punk, but he redeems himself by saving the life of the parrot, the animals' only hope to save the forest from development, because he can talk to humans. They cross India, marveling at the human-made pollution, in a kind of reverse safari, repeating the environmental lessons so common in children's animation in a unique, spirited way. Given that one of our favorite restaurants right now is called Bollywood Grill, our favorite line was towards the end when the humans proclaim, "That parrot has watched too much Bollywood!"