After descending Mt.
Everest in 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary received worldwide acclaim as the first westerner to reach the top — and also snickers for alleging to spot yeti footprints and hair in the snow.
Seven years later, Hillary returned to the Himalayas to prove his claim.
He saw nothing — but he’d see himself in writer-director Jill Culton’s “Abominable,” a serviceable cartoon about aged ice-pick-brandishing explorer Burnish (voiced by Eddie Izzard) determined to catch and display the mythical creature for no better reason than to silence the jeers.The latest offering from DreamWorks Animation gently alights on the fragile male ego.
Yet its main interests are twofold: flog a new beast to supplant the successful “How to Train Your Dragon” franchise and satisfy its Chinese financiers withThe adventure is all part of quest by three youngsters — Yi (Chloe Bennet of TV’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Peng (Albert Tsai) and
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