The actor Bill Nighy has provided voices for a mean rattlesnake (Rango) and a dim-witted rat (Flushed Away), and he went full motion-capture as the tentacle-tressed monster Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. In Norm of the North,
Displaced from their Arctic home, a polar bear named Norm and his three lemming friends wind up in New York City, where Norm becomes the mascot of a corporation he soon learns is tied to the fate of his homeland. The film stars the vocal talents of Rob
Taking to heart the old adage of "write what you know," Heather Graham was inspired to write and direct her upcoming film Half Magic after going through a breakup. "I went through this breakup and I was laying in bed, kind of depressed and I was, like
Neither its animation nor voice performances (Colm Meaney and comedian Gabriel Iglesias also lend their talents) are particularly memorable, but Norm of the North, especially in its early section set in the Arctic, has its appealing moments. And if the
The animation already looks dated, and it feels as lazy as the bland narrative, which finds Norm traveling to New York City to try stop construction on his home. Norm's lemming sidekicks, the kind of cuddly, dialogue-free companions who function as