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Movie Review: #Storks

Storks exceeds in cuteness but poops its diapers with a poor plot. Review by Matt Cummings We've witnessed a 2016 animated slate that's included the very good ( Kubo and the Two Strings ), the meh ( Zoopotpia ), and the truly awful ( Norm of the North ). For early Fall's Storks , we get something in the middle, filled with heartening moments, but disturbing in its overall premise. In a world where storks like Junior (voiced by Andy Samberg) used to bring babies to homes, times have changed. After a delivery goes wrong - leaving the human Tulip (Katie Crown) without a home - the storks decide to enter the package delivery business. Over eighteen years, the company led by Hunter (Kelsey Grammer) has become a success, irregardless of Tulip's clumsy efforts to disrupt that. But for the human boy Nate (Anton Starkman), his desire for a brother leads him to write a letter to those very same storks, unaware of the company's new 'vision.' When Tulip