The creature is cute. For that, a few stars. But the writing is pretty bad and lacks conflict (inner conflict, conflict between characters, story conflict). The first half of the movie there's a lot of sidetracking and unnecessary dialogue. And as another reviewer said, it leans on too many minds, jumping back and forth between comedy, action, warm hearted family movie, et cetera. The acting isn't great either, and all this combined makes this movie too boring to feel invested. Even so, my daughter and I did watch it until the end, because Chupa, the movie's best actor (save for a particular flying scene towards the end) is really very cute.