Everybody's doing it these days - making cartoon features that it.

This one, with its largely disconnected story, and clodhopping sense of humour, is one step up from Saturday morning TV fare, with a French frog hero (yes, he did used to be a prince), a busty chop-socky heroine and a villainess who spends most of her time transformed into a snake.

Most of the voicing is surprisingly clumsy, although Ben Kingsley's Freddie is acceptable enough, even if he does have trouble with the word camouflage (which, surely, is French), but the goodies are too po-faced, the sentiment too sickly and the songs not integrated with the story.

Another problem is that the story itself isn't even vaguely believable, involving the 'stealing' of castles, palaces and monuments from Britain.

Animation is fair, but the characters lack warmth, variation, likeability. Excruciating for adults, acceptable enough for small children.