Smallfoot

Rated 3.0

High in the Himalayas, a young yeti (voiced by Channing Tatum) claims to have seen a Smallfoot (read “human being”); this gets him banished from his village because everybody knows Smallfoots are only a myth. With the clandestine help of some Smallfoot-believing friends (Zendaya, LeBron James, Gina Rodriguez), he sets out to venture down “below the clouds” and prove that what he saw is no myth. For a movie with 13 producers, seven writers, and two directors (Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig), this animated time-killer is better than it has any right to be—but it’s just barely good. The story is reasonably engaging, the animation colorfully hyperactive, and there are several bubblegum pop songs—which, like the movie itself, are blandly enjoyable, and just as blandly forgettable once they’re over.