There are no anthropomorphic animals. No musical numbers. No Rosie O’Donnell. No Rice, no John, no Menken... not even a Zimmer. This is a move-it-along action flick with a multi-national, age-varied, sex-unbiased group of characters in a story that has spiritual overtones that are unusually accepting of spirituality beyond the Judeo-Christian world. Don Hahn, Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale took a lot of elements we’ve seen before and cobbled them together in a way we’ve never seen before... not that this is a huge animation breakthrough. But we know most of these characters and yet they remain fresh and interesting throughout.