Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl...
Storks has a reasonably clever premise that updates a classic myth into a corporate satire, but the plot is fairly thin and relies on predictable beats and broad comedy to carry it through. The voice cast is energetic and committed, elevating the material beyond what it might otherwise be. Visually the film is competent and kinetic, with some inventive action sequences, though it rarely transcends standard modern animation aesthetics. The concept is moderately fresh in its corporate-world spin on the stork mythology, but it doesn't push far enough to feel truly distinctive. The ending is warm but rushed and overly sentimental, wrapping up its threads too neatly without much earned emotional weight.