Movie Review - Storks



I DID not have any high expectations for this movie initially, but I was surprised how funny this film turned out to be.
Storks used to deliver babies from Stork Mountain, but not any more. Now they deliver packages from retail giant Cornerstore.com.
Top delivery guy Junior (Andy Samberg) is promised a promotion by his boss Hunter (Kelsey Grammer), as long as Junior fires Tulip (Katie Crown), an 18-year-old girl who was never delivered to her rightful home as a baby, because the stork who was supposed to deliver her went crazy.
Tulip is a well-meaning but clumsy young woman and because it is her birthday, Junior finds it hard to fire her. Instead he moves her into the letter-sorting department which has not been used in years.
On earth a little lonely boy called Nate (Anton Starkman) comes across an old brochure about storks delivering babies and writes a letter asking for a baby brother.
Tulip plops it into the long abandoned baby-making machine and out pops a cute baby girl. Junior realises that his job is now on the line. So he and Tulip, with the baby, sneak off Stork Mountain in Tulips' flying machine.
The film really starts moving from this point onwards as Junior, Tulip and baby encounter all sorts of adventures.
Look out for the hilarious wolf pack led by Alpha and Beta (voiced by comic duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele), who provide the most laughs of the film, as well as Nate using emotional blackmail on his career-driven parents.
There is a lot of absurdism in this comedy (especially with the wolf pack turning into various objects) but you will find yourself laughing at the premise anyway.
The movie also opens with a Lego short film about a Kung Fu master who battles a chicken.