{"id":42938,"date":"2026-10-17T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42938"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:16:18","slug":"animal-crackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42938","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Animal Crackers&#8221; (2017) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z101726review_animalcrackers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Animal Crackers <\/i>(2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Scott Christian Sava, Tony Bancroft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Scott Christian Sava, Dean Lorey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: \u00a0<strong>Emily Blunt, <\/strong><strong>Danny DeVito, <\/strong><strong>John Krasinski, <\/strong><strong>Ian McKellen, <\/strong><strong>Sylvester Stallone, <\/strong><strong>Patrick Warburton, <\/strong><strong>Raven-Symon\u00e9, <\/strong><strong>Harvey Fierstein, <\/strong><strong>Wallace Shawn, <\/strong><strong>Gilbert Gottfried, <\/strong><strong>Tara Strong, <\/strong><strong>James Arnold Taylor, <\/strong><strong>Kevin Grevioux <\/strong>and <strong>Lydia Rose Taylor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>A magical adventure in every bite!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Owen and Zoe meet at Owen&#8217;s family circus as children.\u00a0 Years later, they marry.\u00a0 Owen leaves the circus to work at his father-in-law&#8217;s dog biscuit factory as a taster.\u00a0 \u00a0When Owen inherits the circus, Zoe decides to give it a go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The circus has seen better days.\u00a0 Then Owen and Zoe find a box of magical animal crackers.\u00a0 Eating an animal shaped cracker turns the person into the real animal!\u00a0 Owen eats different crackers and becomes the circus&#8217; star attraction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Owen&#8217;s evil uncle, wants the circus and plans to steal the magic animal crackers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0And now if I can direct your attention to the center ring&#8230; the show is about to start!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Animal Crackers<\/em> is based on a graphic novel that co-Director Scott Christian Sava wrote for his two children.\u00a0 He set the story in his hometown of Franklin, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, who voice the married couple, Zoe and Owen, are married in real-life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I watched this with my grandchildren (ages 3 and 7), they loved it.\u00a0 Their laughter was contagious!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Animal Crackers <\/i>(2017)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z101726review_animalcrackers2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal Crackers (2017) Director: Scott Christian Sava, Tony Bancroft Screenplay: \u00a0Scott Christian Sava, Dean Lorey Stars: \u00a0Emily Blunt, Danny DeVito,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43069,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938\/revisions\/43069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}