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There’s a lot to like in the film’s gags. And those segments work very well – even if one drags (for me it was Renaissance Italy), there’ll be another along in about ten minutes.

Peabody & Sherman is an excuse to take the two adventures to Revolutionary France, Ancient Egypt, Renaissance Italy and Troy for the purposes of having wacky adventures. Befitting an adaptation of a five-minute segment of a larger show, the movie is structured as a series of extended action sequences that are only loosely connected by the most tenuous of plots. To be fair, the movie’s simplicity works quite well as a piece of light-hearted family entertainment. Given the simplicity of the movie itself – which is primarily composed of episodic run-arounds – the over-arcing plot connecting it all really needs to be a bit tighter, giving us a reason to care. These are familiar plot beats, and they are the most simplistic manner possible to mine dramatic tension from the relationship between Peabody and Sherman. We get a plot about child services plotting to take Sherman away from his adoptive father, and Sherman’s obligatory rebellion against his father’s rather heavy-handed style of parenting. The movie is less successful when trying to mine that relationship for dramatic tension.