Parents' Guide to

Zodiac: The Race Begins

By Brian Costello, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 8+

Dreadful animated folk tale has some scares.

Movie PG 2006 84 minutes
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age 7+

Based on 1 parent review

age 7+

horrible!

Worst movie I've seen in a long time.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
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Kids say (1):

ZODIAC: THE RACE BEGINS is an excruciatingly awful mix of terrible songs, horrible acting, unlikeable characters, and only the thinnest of storylines to carry this thing through to the end. This movie has no redeeming value to it. Which is a shame, because the basic premise of it is interesting enough, but the execution of this movie is so bad, it's impossible to care how it ends.

As if this wasn't bad enough, there is also an evil tree that speaks in a sinister voice tailor-made to fill young kids' heads with nightmares. This is just plain lousy, and there really isn't anything else to say about it.

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