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Review: Migration - prepare to be quacked up

Migration gets its ducks in a row
Migration gets its ducks in a row
Reviewer score
PG
Director Benjamin Renner
Starring Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Awkwafina, Danny DeVito, Keegan-Michael Key, David Mitchell, Carol Kane, Caspar Jennings, Tresi Gazal

There's plenty of laughs and some rather lovely animation in this anarchic adventure about a paddling of ducks who leave their homely New England pond to migrate to southern climes for the winter.

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Headed by "quick-witted matriarch" Pam (voice of Elizabeth Banks) and her lazy and risk-adverse husband Mack (Kumail Nanjiani), the Mallard family are stuck in a rut. The ducklings, Dax and Gwen, are getting itchy webbed feet so mother duck decides to take everyone down to Jamaica for a much-needed change of scenery.

Easier said than done. Unused to navigation let alone migration, the Mallards fetch up in New York where they befriend a plucky little pigeon called Chump (Awkwafina) and best of all Keegan Michael-Key as Delroy, a homesick Jamaican parrot locked away in a Manhattan restaurant.

Throw in an evil chef who sees the Mallards à l'Orange and some decent sight gags, and Migration helps the time fly by.

Alan Corr @CorrAlan2