In Illumination’s animated movie “Migration,” which hits movies screens Friday, a mallard duck family flying from New England to Jamaica stops in New York. The freaked-out father of the ...

Movie from earlier this year assures that this will continue to be a part of the business plan. (Coming next summer: Despicable Me 4.) Migration (in theaters Dec. 22) breaks from that pattern ...

Turning “The White Lotus” creator Mike White loose on an animated movie from the “Minions” gang might have seemed fraught with irreverent potential, but the result, “Migration ...

“Migration,” the latest film from Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio that brought you “Minions,” asks the question: “What if we took the archetype of the hero’s journey ...

Benjamin Renner directed Migration, with the computer-generated animated movie based on a screeplay by Mike White (The White Lotus).

So, so much more. “Migration” is swift and appealing, a high-flying jaunt that doesn’t need to break the mold on these kinds of family adventure movies. The character design is familiar ...

And that’s all there is to “Migration,” the latest offering from the Illumination studio, home of Gru and his Minions and this year’s giga-blockbuster “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” ...

Its new “Migration” flaps away from those movies, thanks to its director and its occasionally painterly look, but can’t completely slip those bonds. Fortunately, though, while the broad ...