The Tale of Despereaux Blu-ray Review

Based on the best-selling children’s book, and loaded with an all-star list of voice talents, The Tale of Despereaux is a April 7th Blu-ray animation release from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Complete with Blu-ray Hi-Def, the film is a fun family movie about a mouse who wants to be a knight and a noble rat caught in up in a sewer full of bad rats.

Despereaux (Matthew Broderick), the mouse, and rat Roscuro (Dustin Hoffman), are kindred rodent spirits. Despereaux is an outcast in his own community because he is a little different and has no desire to be like a mouse. He refuses to learn to cower in fear and exerts a sort of bravery that throws caution to the wind, and defies mouse logic. After realizing no hope to change him, the town council banishes Despereaux into the deep underground of the sewer, where no mouse has returned.