Jeri Jacquin

Coming to theatres from directors Tania Vincent, Ricard Cusso and Blue Fox Entertainment comes the remarkable tale with A SLOTH STORY.

After a destructive storm tears through the restaurant of the Flores sloth family and it is not safe to rebuild, it is time for them to move on. Papa Luis (Benjamin Gorrono) and Mama Gabriella (Olivia Vasquez) are sad to have to leave but when they build a food truck called Gordito and move to the big city to seek their fortune. Laura (Teo Vergara) is the fastest of the sloth family and is excited for the chance to experience it all along with brother Mani (Facundo Herrera).

Laura tries to explain to her family that preparing food is done too slowly and people want it fast. She also quickly makes friends with the local children who are so thrilled to have her as part of their team. She also comes up with the idea to create an assembly line in the food truck in order to get the food out faster and mom Gabriella agrees as long as they continue to use the family recipes. The food is almost immediately a success and the people are loving it!

Someone who is not loving it is Dotti Pace (Leslie Jones), a fast-food business that is having its own problems. She is also hearing the buzz around the awesome Gordito food truck and it is frustrating. Pace believes she can solve the sloth problem by buying out their family recipes but Luis and Gabriella aren’t having it. Laura becomes upset because she can’t join her friends and play cricket while Pace sees it as a chance to worm her way in and destroy the Flores family.

What Laura learns is that her family is much more than a book of recipes, she slows down and begins to understand what her parents have been trying to achieve all along.

Vergara voicing Laura is a young sloth who moves faster than those around her. That swiftness is a problem because it is more about impatience than speed. She wants a so much for herself and trying to help her family gets muddled between being a kid and helping her family succeed in a new place. Vasquez as Gabriella is a mother who just wants to keep her family book close and be successful at slow cooking. She and Laura have their conflict as all mothers and daughters do.

Gorrono as Luis is a father who loves everything around him. He also wants what is best for the family and creating a food truck is his way to find not only a way for them to be together but also take care of one another. Herrera as Mani is a typical brother who wants to help the family and yet not much bothers him. That doesn’t mean he isn’t all in for the family because he most certainly is.

Jones as Dotti Pace is a character that gets more and more frustrated as her business doesn’t seem to be getting better. Realizing that the Flores sloth clan has something everybody wants, Jones gives her character an all-out badness because now she wants it all for herself. The Flores sloth family (and a few friends) are not about to give up something that is precious to their family in so many ways.

Other voices include Dan Brumm as Chief Furbank, Remy Hii as Platy, Matteo Romaniuk as Arlo and Andrew Cook as Coach Jerry.

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A SLOTH STORY has so many wonderful meanings to it from a family struggling, a family history, generational divide and a young girl trying to find her own way. When their home is taken by mother nature, it takes only a brief moment before the family picks themselves up and finds a way to make it work. It doesn’t happen right way but with a bit of time, a lot of creativity and a bit of love, these sloths realize they can’t be successful without one another.

The film itself is wonderfully colorful and it adds such a richness to the story. The characters have their own personalities that are charming, well, maybe except for Dotti Pace. That being said, she is a spotty villain and Jones gives her character a slyness that doesn’t help Laura at all. Laura herself is a girl who has a hard time containing her emotions as she wants to help her family, she wants to have friends and the divide between the two are difficult for a kid.

A SLOTH STORY is an amazing film and I so recommend that families come together to experience it for themselves. After it is over, the story offers a wonderful opportunity for the family to talk about the story and how each can relate to it. I have a sneaky suspicion that we all have the Flores family in us.

In the end – fast food cooked slowly is the sloth way!

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