With this family animation, Mexican film-making brothers Gabriel and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste put young and old alike through a gruelling ordeal of headachey hyperactive visuals and flatlining gags. This 2021 film is the latest instalment of their Little Eggs franchise, getting a UK release presumably to cash in on the Easter school holidays. Though to be honest, I’d take two weeks locked inside a soft-play centre with a class of Year Ones over sitting through it again.
The story begins on a farm in Mexico where rooster Toto has become the proud dad of two adorable eggs: a boy and a girl who pop out with legs and arms, wearing matching sneakers and talking. I was puzzled by the egg aspect of the film: is it weird that Toto’s sprogs are talking eggs, not hatched chicks? Bizarrely, other eggs in the coop are clearly adults. Has something gone freakishly wrong with embryo development on this farm?
