Posh tones for a toon

Not often do you hear posh English tones in a kids' cartoon. Lynn Redgrave, Rupert Everett and Tim Curry are among the vocal performances pitched in ladida accents in Nickelodeon's tale of an extended family of environmentalists who tour the globe to make TV films in the exotic locations beloved by Attenborough and Greenpeace.

Much of the movie, though, is less cause-worthy, consisting of a little Thornberry girl with a spotty face finding her mischievous pet chimp is a stowaway in her boarding-school trunk.

It's very noisy and endlessly talky. I prefer the Rugrats: at least their English hasn't got much beyond the crËche.

The Wild Thornberrys Movie
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