Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle - a singing crocodile who loves baths, caviar and great music-living in the attic of his new home. The two become fast friends, but when Lyle’s existence is threatened by evil neighbor Mr. Grumps, the Primm’s must band together with Lyle’s charismatic owner, Hector P. Valenti, to show the world that family can come from the most unexpected places and there’s nothing wrong with a big singing crocodile with an even bigger personality.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
- Stars: Javier Bardem, Constance Wu, Winslow Fegley, Shawn Mendes, Scoot McNairy, Brett Gelman, Lyric Hurd, Sal Viscuso, Don DiPetta, Yussie Jupiter, Mac Wells, Lindsey Moser, Melisa Lopez, Chloe Camp, Joe Gulla, Elijahawon Perrin, Niquitta S. Wolfe, Zeb Slone
- Director: Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Comments
- glenaobrien - 23 January 2024
It's sure ain't Paddington
Javier Bardem what were you thinking? And how many times did they sing that same song, 'Take a Look at Us Now'? Seemed like a lot. The book was better. This movie is not Paddington that's for sure. Only watch if you think you'd enjoy Sam Mendes singing showtunes inside a CGI crocodile or Constance Wu dumpster diving with her pet crocodile or ... any number of other unwatchable and unenjoyable elements that this film delivers. Oh and Jarvier Bardem abandons Lyle as if it means nothing and then comes back and wants to be all chummy again. Oh and did I mention that song, 'Take a Look at Us Now'? Seems like I might have mentioned that already. - ivan_dmitriev - 17 August 2023
See you never alligator, in a never crocodile
What a bunch of nonsense for ages 3 and under.
There's a reason it was an illustrated bedtime story and not a movie, because its characters are flat, uninvolved and have no development outside the predictably twodimensional thinking of the pinheads responsible for the production and the script.
The advantages of a bedtime story are at least two, as my wife said, - first the drawings are cute, unlike the movie, and you can't miscast anyone, unlike almost every character in here, and the second - is that from one day to the next you get tired and fall asleep and forget about the nonsense which you were told about on the previous day. This brings the horrible truth of the "bedtime stories don't make good action movie" into full technicolor
End grade: 1 badly-animated repulsive CGI cat out of the box of compressed 300 mass-produced foam-stuffed-dioxine-ridden movie merchandise crocodiles.
