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Turbo

Turbo

Movie · 2013 · 15 people

DreamWorks Animation produced Turbo, a 2013 American computer-animated sports and adventure comedy distributed by 20th Century Fox. It tells of a dreamy garden snail who wants to be the world's fastest. It is the first feature from director David Soren, who wrote the screenplay with Darren Lemke and Robert Siegel. It premiered at CineEurope on May 20, 2013, and opened in the United States on July 17.

Turbo feels shut out because he sees himself as slower than the others, until a freak accident gives him great speed. That speed brings him closer to winning the Indianapolis 500, and he stops hiding in his shell and rallies his fellow snails. Ryan Reynolds voices the hero in the original version, with Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Snoop Dogg and Samuel L. Jackson. Kubilay Penbeklioğlu appears in the Turkish dub.

The idea came from a 2009 DreamWorks contest for one-page pitches: Soren's "The Fast and the Furious with snails" won. After he moved to a home with a backyard full of snails, he revived it, and his son's love of race cars inspired the racing scenes. Critics praised the animation and humor but faulted its lack of originality, and despite about $282 million in takings it was a box-office disappointment.

DirectorDavid Soren
Production companyDreamWorks Animation

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Kubilay Penbeklioğlu Kubilay Penbeklioğlu Actor · 59 years old Ryan Reynolds Paul Giamatti Michael Peña Samuel L. Jackson Luis Guzmán Bill Hader Snoop Dogg Maya Rudolph Ben Schwartz Richard Jenkins Ken Jeong Michelle Rodriguez Mike Bell Mario Andretti

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

Turbo is a colorful animated film you can watch comfortably with young children. Its message is simple and positive: someone who feels slow and different can still chase a dream, with friends at their side. Racing excitement and humor come first rather than heavy themes. It has a Turkish dub, so little ones who can't read yet can follow along easily. Adults may find the story a bit familiar, but it works well as a family weekend film.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

When the subject is speed, animation has no limits, and Turbo makes good use of that. With the Indianapolis 500 as the goal, a snail entering the world's most famous race is a built-in contrast, and that is where the stakes come from. If you want energy from the racing scenes, you will get it. But since it follows the familiar sports-film template, don't expect big surprises; the tension comes mostly from the pace.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Turbo's origins explain its character: the project began in DreamWorks' one-page pitch contest with the idea of "Fast and Furious with snails". That is a high-concept hook you can sell in a single sentence; the problem is that the film rarely moves beyond that sentence. An outcast hero gaining an extraordinary gift and gearing up for the big race is a well-worn path in Hollywood sports and animation formulas. So the critics were right to praise the animation and humor while pointing to a lack of originality. That it counted as a box-office disappointment despite earning around 282 million dollars also shows how high expectations run for big-studio animation. As David Soren's first feature, it is a technically tidy piece of work.

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