SamSam

Sci-fi cartoon adventure has silly, child-hating villain.

Too much of the plot feels cribbed from "Sky High," "Monsters, Inc.," and a dozen better movies, and just remind the viewer of how less-than-super "SamSam" is.

It'll occupy the under-sevens well enough for an hour but it's a long way from being out of this world.

For a movie that celebrates laughter as the key to happiness, 'SamSam' provides very little of it...very bland kiddie fodder.

Plays like what it is, a quick and pretty, but ill-thought-through attempt to cash in on a popular French kids' cartoon.