'Early Man' lands on low rung of Aardman's evolutionary ladder
Hailing from director Nick Park, one of the masterminds behind the stop-motion-animated antics of Wallace & Gromit, "Early Man" seems like a fertile idea. The movie, alas, turns out to be closer to a primordial mess, which -- in its mix of soccer and Stone Age politics -- registers several runs below Aardman Studios' usual place on the evolutionary ladder.
