Mission: Impossible in 3-D with CG vermin — but it could have been worse. A starry voice cast (Nicolas Cage as a mole; Sam Rockwell, Penélope Cruz and Jon Favreau as guinea pigs) play secret-agent pets out to prove their worth by tackling a sinister scheme to bring kitchen utensils to Transformers-style evil life (“Yippee-kay-yay, coffee-maker,” snarls a hero after smashing one killbot).
There’s a Bolt-style tendency to interrupt action-adventure fun with yucky life lessons (and fart jokes), and few over eight would be seen dead buying a ticket, but for its intended audience it’s reasonably ingenious fun. And Steve Buscemi is a hoot as a paranoid hamster. Better than Transformers 2 by a whisker.