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The strangest thing with SneerA new animated film co-produced by Rob Edwards and Christopher Jenkins and written by Edwards (Captain America: Brave New World,, The princess and the frog), Is it not that shoes become sensitive beings, but that a stacked cast is wasted on a story as gloomy and predictable.

Anthony Mackie, Martin Lawrence, Swae Lee, Laurence Fishburne, Chloe Bailey and Macy Gray, among others, lend their voices to the shoes and people who populate this fictitious city in New York. And although their performance is solid, they lack energy that one could reasonably expect from such a talented whole.

The problems come largely from a story that depends, instead of simply riddled with clichés. A story of a child trying to realize his dreams or a meeting between a shoe and his other half does not need to be deep, but it should feel inspired, whether through the animation or the twists and turns of history, especially because Sneer is targeted for a younger set. But the comedy does not have the challenges to engage more than to pass interest. And although there are a lot of word games related to the only, the film is so frantic that most of them do not really get.

Sneer Open the day of the Sneakerhead gala, an agreement where rubber shoes aficionados can admire the last shoes and enter a raffle to win the warmest kick.

When we meet Edson (Lee), he is in a car with his raging mother (Kiana Ledé) at the Manhattan event. He crosses a magazine and looked at a pair of alchemy 24, a highly anticipated model of white sneakers with gold topping designed by Chris Paul (expressed by the basketball player himself). They are described as “the golden star” of Shoes and Edson hopes that he will be able to wear them in his basketball match later in the evening, where he will naturally win the crowd and will court his Vanessa (Amirah Hall) crushing.

At the Center Convention, a cavernous building bursting with excited fans, Edson goes to the famous supplier of The Collector (Fishburne), would have the largest collection of shoes in the country – perhaps even the world. When the collector – a strong silhouette dressed in equipment better suited to a hike than the streets of the city and always accompanied by his curious Pit -Bull Mercury – buys 200 tomola tickets, Edson thinks that he will never win alchemy 24.

Inside the shoe box, the coveted sneakers come to life. Their names are Ty (Mackie) and Maxine (Bailey), the brothers and sisters with different aspirations. While TY hopes that the winner will ensure the safe pair and in a climate -controlled room, Maxine wants to see the world and make a difference. She hopes that the raffle will be won by someone who will really wear them.

Luck is on the side of Maxine because Edson wins the shoes, to everyone’s surprise around him. The teenager is delighted, especially because his current pair of sneakers is exhausted. In a first scene, while he tries to impress Vanessa, the tip separates from the sole, leaving his toes covered with exposed socks and our protagonist on the field.

Enraged by Edson’s victory, the collector – working in the name of a mysterious figure called The Forage (Roddy Rich) – later in the afternoon, sneaks into the boy’s apartment and steals the pair. When Maxine realizes that she and her brother are kidnapped, she tries to convince Ty that they have to escape. They end up fighting, as the brothers and sisters do, separating into the process. Ty landed in the streets of New York while Maxine finds herself trapped in a fancy apartment near Central Park West.

So begins a frantic adventure, sometimes blurred and rarely surprising: Ty and Maxine try to come together, Edson tries to find his stolen shoes (but above all sulking) and the collector is looking for Ty so that he can put the Alchemy 24s to the Forage. Although there are many sons in SneerAlmost none of them summons enough interest to ensure that this lukewarm conduct wins our investment.

When Ty meets JB (Martin Lawrence), another shoe that lost his other half a lot of years ago, the film resumed. The cunning sneaker, all black with a design that looks like Air Jordans real, sees Ty as a brand and wants to steal the bling of the naive shoe – diamonds and gold accents on its body.

The partition of Terrace Martin is funky and cool while Mustard, which many will know as the success producer of Kendrick Lamar, Drake and many other musicians, contributes to the memorable ears who cross the soundtrack of the pair through the animated metropolis).

They catch journeys on the roller boards and compete with rival shoes on basketball courts in exchange for information. Although there are humorous moments in this low -risk friend’s comedy, even JB does not seem completely determined to treat TY as a real brand.

Most SneerUnfortunately, feels superficial, quickly losing steam despite only 80 minutes, less credits. The project invites questions about what went wrong during brainstorming sessions rather than scoring points to find new ways in a familiar story.

Although the animation can be used, the failure of the sneakers’ design experimentation is a missed opportunity. Alchemy 24 are introduced as a sneaker to love, but those and other shoes presented throughout the film lack details. There is a global game shortage for Sneerobvious at each stage of the path.