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
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
Norm of the North — Norm is a polar bear who travels to New York City to prevent a developer from building condos in the Arctic. Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Gabriel Iglesias and Bill Nighy lend their voices to the animated flick. Rated PG.
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,
Treading blatantly on "Happy Feet" terrain, "Norm of the North" is a blandly uninspired animated adventure about a gentle polar bear who rises to the occasion when his frozen habitat is threatened by a greedy land developer. Preferring to entertain