Norm of the North: Family Vacation

Norm of the North: Family Vacation
Splash Entertainment, when will you learn to stop milking Norm of the North just for profit and for stealing the biggest bucks to add it to Lionsgate's giant room for money?
Genre: Animated Comedy Directed By: Anthony Bell Produced By: Andrew Tight Liz Young Written By/Screenplay: Elie Choufany Alec Sokolow Starring: Jennifer Cameron Paul Dobson Brian Drummond Lisa Durupt James Higuchi Jonathan Holmes Cole Howard Lee Tockar Andrew Toth Distributed By: Lionsgate Home Entertainment Release Date: February 25, 2020 (United States) Runtime: 90 minutes Country: United States Canada India Franchise: Norm of the North Prequel: Norm of the North: King Sized Adventure Sequel: Norm of the North 5 (Unknown)

Norm of the North: Family Vacation (also known as Norm of the North 4: Family Vacation or just simply known as Norm of the North 4) is a 2020 American computer-animated comedy-adventure direct-to-video movie produced by Splash Entertainment and distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. It serves as a sequel to Norm of the North: King Sized Adventure and is overall the fourth (fifth is considering Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom as two films in one) instrumental in the Norm of the North series.

Plot

Overwhelmed with his Kingly duties, Norm's crown is stolen and he embarks on a journey to find it in conjunction with repairing his family's relationship.

Why It's A Vacation That Ended In Disaster

1. The film does very little to improve on the last three films.
2. Voice performances can range from sub-par at best and even dreadful at worst.
3. This film had so many plot-holes such as characters knowing that Norm had a crown and while it was seen in the previous movies, it never has any significant importance and the Ice Boat from Harbin China to the Arctic Ice Circle, and etc.
4. There is some crude humor that some parents may not find appropriate for the kids, such as Norm kissing a child on his and Elizabeth's bed, which gives off pedophilia implications in a family film. (Keep in mind that Norm is a polar bear, so this also counts as zoophilia as well.)
5. There are also tones of other Plot-Holes that are never explained:
   1. When can the Orcas talk?
   2. Why couldn't Norm and Co. just take the helicopter to China?
   3. How the heck can Fu, who is a tiger, create Harbin?
   4. What happen to Fu's wife?
   5. How can the Lemmings create a Drill Machine out of ice, and how can ice have gears?
   6. After the climax, it's revealed that Fu's twin kids are the ones who stole Norm's crown, the reason they stole Norm's crown is because they want to give it to their father as a surprise birthday present and as to make him feel more like a king, they live in an area were ice can be made into literary EVERYTHING and ANYTHING they want, why couldn't they have made the crown from the ice and do that instead???
6. Unlike previous films, Norm of the North: Family Vacation is entirety a bottled film, as most of it takes place in both the Arctic and the Harbin, thus making this film visually boring.
7. Misleading title: Despite being named as Family Vacation, the family does not take a family vacation in the actual movie.
8. There is a scene in this film on the underwater that looks like it's copied from Finding Nemo.
9. Like the previous films, the characters are still unlikable, especially Norm himself.
   • Speaking of the beginning, the snowflakes looked awful as if someone who worked on the movie searched for snowflakes green screen on Google or YouTube, and this is the first thing that popped up they used.
10. Tiny is an extremely annoying character.
11. The "main villains" of the film, who are revealed to be the Fu's twin kids, are lame, and as stated in #6 of the plot-hole segment, their motives don't make sense.
12. Surprisingly enough, characters such as Olympia and Vera Bright, who have been there since the first film, do not return, nor are they even mentioned.
13. And if that's not enough, there is another sequel to this movie planned, there is no planned release date.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The lemmings are used a lot less than in the previous films.
2. Just like Norm of the North: King Sized Adventure, the animation improved a little bit on the characters movements and textures.
3. The soundtrack is decent.
4. Like Norm of the North: Keys To The Kingdom, it doesn't have any pop culture references.
5. There can be some admittedly funny moments here and there.

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