A few years ago I’ve read a book about a mouse that falls in love with a princess. A few days ago I saw the movie adaptation of this book. Tales of Despereaux was a good film yet had it share of problems. So this review will have some nitpicking involved.
The movie starts with a rat named Roscuro (voiced by Dustin Hoffman) who just arrived on a ship to a land that loves soup. They arrive during the huge soup festival where a new soup is announced. During this festival Roscuro is sniffing the new soup that smells delicious soup and accidentally falls into the Queen’s soup. The queen seeing the rat has a heart attack. The king immediately sends the guards after the rat. The funny thing is that the guards are trying to hard to kill a rat. Good thing it wasn’t a fly or else they will have to call the military. After the queen’s death the king bans soup and rats from the kingdom.
Meanwhile a mouse named Despereaux (Voiced by Matthew Broderick) is born. Despereaux is a weird mouse seeing that he isn’t a complete coward unlike the rest of the mice in the town of Mouse World. Seeing that Despereaux isn’t a coward his parents send him to spend time with his brother eating books. Despereaux instead of eating the book reads it instead. The book is about knights, princesses and castles. Then Despereaux hears some crying coming from Princess Pea (Voiced by Emma Watson A.K.A. the girl who plays Hermione Granger). The Princess is crying because apparently banning soup and rats causes a famine. He talks to the princess and falls in love with her.
When Despereaux gets home he tells his brother about it and his parents find out. Because it is against the law for a mouse to talk to a human he is banished and is forced down the drain to rat world (very creative name guys). At rat world Despereaux is captured by the rats where they put him in an arena where they have a hungry cat. Despereaux is saved by Roscuro when Roscuro says that he wants to have him to himself. Despereaux and Roscuro form a friendship.
Roscuro plans to go on a quest to apologize to the princess. When Roscuro goes to apologize to the princess but the princess screams and has the guard goes after the rat (the guards must feel silly never having to fight real enemies). Roscuro after escaping now has vengeance in his heart and gets the help of a maid named Miggery Sow. Miggery is a former farm girl who really wants to be a princess and hates the real princess for not being grateful.
Roscuro then takes the princess to Rat World. Meanwhile the head chef gets tired of not making soup and decides to make soup even though he might get imprisoned or executed. Apparently soup is the cure to environmental problems because it starts raining and replenishing the land. Despereaux hearing that the princess is in trouble knows he must rescue her, so he runs to the coliseum where all the rats are about to feast on the princess. Roscuro has a change of heart and decides to help Despereaux save the princess. Despereaux then release the cat which makes most of the rats run away but a few still stay. Then the sun comes out which apparently harms the rats (LOTR rip off alert!!!). So Despereaux saves the princess and the laws that outlaw soup and rats are off and they all live happily ever after.
In conclusion this movie seems to be more about soup then bravery. The book was better but this is still an enjoyable and beautiful film.
I Give it 3 ½ 5 stars
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