Linda Holmes

What?

But it works extremely well.

And I really, really enjoyed it, too.

I think...

You know, when I see a movie like this that does have some genuine elements of loss and grief, there is part of me that thinks like, oh, should I like make it clear to people that like, oh, maybe it's not really a little kid's movie because it's sad.

But then you think about like The Lion King.

Like there's a lot of sadness in a lot of movies that are intended for kids.

Right.

I personally think this is, I mean, people know their own kids, but I think it's a very appropriate movie for a young audience or an adult audience.

I think they've done a really nice job of splitting that difference.

I think that the humor in it, to me, is amazing.

It's not all sort of like juvenile humor, you know, which you get even sometimes now in like the Pixar movies, you'll get a lot of sort of body humor and stuff like that.

It's not really like that.

It's really gentle.

I also very much like the fact that the humans in the movie, it reminds me a little bit of how they handle the humans in something like the Muppet movie.

Yes.

Where in order to survive and exist in this world with these talking sheep, the humans are like elevated.

The humans are a little bit more silly than a lot of these actors would be.

You can just feel it's like a little bigger, which I think is exactly right.

There's a famous quote from Michael Caine about sheep.