Thursday, June 8, 2017

Storks rated PG for mild action and some thematic elements


When I saw the previews for this picture I wasn't interested.  A couple of friends purchased it for their children and then put it on for me.

Storks used to deliver babies but stopped since they found more lucrative, easy work delivering merchandise a la' Amazon.  Junior (voiced by Andy Samberg) is looking forward to his upcoming promotion which will enable him to not have to make deliveries and spend time hanging out with upper management including his boss Hunter (voiced by Kelsey Grammer).

Unfortunately the one thing standing in Junior's way of being promoted is his final assignment:  Get rid of Tulip (voiced by Katie Crown).  Tulip is an unfortunate orphan who lives with the storks after Jasper (voiced by Danny Trejo) the stork that was supposed to deliver her went crazy and destroyed her beacon.  The beacon tells the storks where to take the babies.  Now that Tulip is 18 Hunter wants her gone from the storks facility.

In effort to avoid getting rid of Tulip, Junior hides Tulip in the tower where the babies used to be made and tells her that she's been promoted to special position.  Tulip happily takes on her "new position" and Junior leaves thinking that everything will be fine.

In the real world, a lonely little boy named Nate Gardner (voiced by Anton Starkman) desperately wishes for a younger brother so that he has someone to play with since his parents Sarah (voiced by Jennifer Aniston) and Henry (voiced by Ty Burrell) are too busy for him.  After finding a faded brochure about the storks delivering babies, Nate happily writes a letter detailing his wishes for his baby brother and mails it off.

Back at the storks, Nate's letter arrives and Junior looks on in horror as Tulip happily plugs the letter into the baby making machine.  After a baby girl pops out it's up to Tulip and Junior to deliver the baby to the family that is eagerly awaiting her.

While attempting to deliver the new baby to her family, they have to outwit some impressively organized wolves led by Alpha Wolf (voiced by Keegan-Michael Kaye) and Beta Wolf (voiced by Jordan Peele) as well as Hunter and Pidgeon Toady (voiced by Stephen Kramer Glickman).
This is a great heart-warming family film and was surprisingly funny.



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