Film: Migration
Cast(voices): Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Caspar Jennings, Tresi Gazal, Awkwafina, Carol Kane, Keegan-Michael Key, Danny DeVito
Director: Benjamin Renner
Rating: 3/5
Runtime: 82 mins

This animated effort by Illumination, the studio behind the “Despicable Me” and “Minions” franchises, as well as “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” is distinctive because it doesn’t have any minions in it and attempts to fly higher than what the studio has attempted before. But the minions and Vector from ‘Despicable Me’ do find space in the companion short ‘Mooner’ that plays just before ‘Migration’ opens.

You guessed it. The story is about avians (Ducks, to be specific) attempting to migrate to a distant ‘greener’ land. Given the title the storyline is obvious, and its quite formulaic, but the journey was delightfully engaging and has the right ingredients to keep you engrossed all through the short and sweet runtime. There are of course useful lessons to be learned with a neat enough moral to take home. Thinking and Going ‘Out of the box’ is the key here.