the graphics & character designs are pretty slick, although as is increasingly the case with CGI features, the plot & its message are frequently sidelined by game-inspired action sequences whose swooping speed is designed to counter short attention spans
swifts and seagulls in an unfunny flap; virtually laugh-free, so-so looking with a seriously drippy musical number, it feels like a film slipped into cinemas over summer to sucker parents desperate to do something, anything, to fill a couple of hours
oddly, it's the character designs that seem a little inflexible here; But small children should dig its simple, well-crafted coming-of-age story, set in the world of our feathered friends
no one is cute, amusing, or pretty; "Swift" is cheap on multiple levels. Its animation is, for the most part, crude. It is a sloppy, generic tale of an underdog that keeps literally fading from one disconnected moment to the next
by Eddie Harrison [The List Film (UK) ]
