Storks feels way too much like a belabored and mediocre SNL sketch. Many adventures are had, and much hilarity (of a kind) follows when the two rebellious employees try to sneak baby out and take her to her rightful family before Hunter catches on. His world comes crashing down when his protégé Junior (Samberg) and the company's only human employee, Tulip (Katie Crown), accidentally switch on the baby-making machine and pop out one lil' bairn. In a weak stab at corporate satire, Storks portrays the company as an efficient, soulless empire ruled by the despotic alpha stork Hunter (Grammer), who loathes human children. In the movie's present-day scenario, newborns just pop up out of nowhere, I guess, because, instead of flying babies around, storks now work for a massive, -type online-retail outlet. I guess I must be allergic.įeaturing an impressive lineup of voice actors, including Andy Samberg, Jennifer Aniston, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, and Danny Trejo, Storks is about a parallel universe that knows nothing of the fleshy reality of reproductive biology.īabies, you see, are manufactured in a really big machine, then spat out on conveyor belts, where robotic arms wash and powder them, put them in diapers, and hand them to an army of storks for home delivery.Īt least, that's how things used to be in Storks land.
People seem to like it - it elicited applause from adults and kids alike at a recent screening. A $70 million, obnoxious comic adventure yarn about long-necked birds, diapers, and babies, Storks tries to combine the cuteness factor of newborns with the edgy comedy of Looney Tunes and Saturday Night Live.
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