Abominable

There's comfort to be had in executing on such a durable formula, and - life lessons accompanied by Coldplay's treacly "Fix You" aside - Abominable usually resembles the swift adventure it wants to be.

An exceptionally watchable and amiable animated tale...

Perhaps suffering slightly from being the third sasquatch/abominable snowman animated movie released in the last 12 months (following both Smallfoot and Missing Link), Abominable also doesn't stay too far from Dreamworks' successful How to Train Your Dragon template. The girl and her yeti relationship is rather heartwarming and delightful, while also offering plenty of comedic moments.

Jill Culton, who conceived the story and co-directed the film, was trained at Pixar and her work displays the Pixar trademark, a seamless blending of farce, wit, melancholy and the kind of reflectiveness that traverses the generational divide.

...in turns engrossing and wondrous.

Abominable lacks the personality to distinguish it from superior animated films that cover most of the same ground.

Impresses in its scale and colorful flights of fancy, as well as in its awesome eagerness to please.

In the film's most moving scene, Yi plays a solo so powerful it summons rain, flowers, and the Coldplay hit "Fix You." For an aspiring blockbuster, that culture clash is the cash-grab holy trinity.