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Nostalgia watch for me, but good god this does not hold up. A weird 'boy who cried wolf' story that really has no concept of its own. It exists in that weird mid-2000s space where Disney was trying to compete with Dreamworks, and it also seems to be an extended riff on M. Night Shyamalan's Signs?!? Before the tipping point of Monsters and Aliens, this was the low point of strange small-town nostalgia mixed with sarcastic humor and a vast array of fart jokes. The voice cast is absolutely stacked, though, even featuring Don Knotts in one of his last credits as 'Mayor Turkey Lurkey', as well as Fred Willard, Wallace Shawn, Joan Cusack, and Steve Zahn. Going to be honest, this universe doesn't add up at all. Probably the ultimate anthropomorphic monstrosity that I still have fondness for because of just how fucking weird it is.
The End is Near.