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  1. Mia and the Migoo ( French: Mia et le Migou, Italian: Mià e il Migù) is a 2008 French-Italian animated film produced by Folimage and directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd. The film is about a young girl's search for her father in a tropical paradise, threatened by the construction of a gigantic hotel resort. The English version stars the voices of ...

  2. Aiding Mia on her trip to the remote island are her dead mother's good luck charms, a sorceress (Whoopi Goldberg), and eventually by the Migoo, a shape-shifting, marshmallow-like creature (Wallace Shawn) that can multiply into various versions of itself and whose job it is to protect the Tree of Life, a special "mother tree" that resides in the middle of the proposed development. Aldrin and ...

    • Jacques-Rémy Girerd
    • Sandie Angulo Chen
    • GKIDS
  3. Mar 24, 2011 · March 24, 2011. Jacques-Rémy Girerd’s Mia and the Magoo starts out as a perfectly innocuous, cliché-riddled kid’s film whose sole inventive hook is its hand-painted, Cray-Pas-by-way-of-water-colors animation style. The film’s events play out like an amiable, if unmoving, rehash of Princess Mononoke: A girl saves the Tree of Life from a ...

  4. Mar 24, 2011 · The evidence of the human hand, and all the labor implied by such work, is part of the low-wattage charm of the French animated children’s movie “Mia and the Migoo,” where visible ...

    • Jacques-Rémy Girerd
  5. Sep 11, 2012 · The Migoo are guardians of the Tree of Life, which is being threatened by the resort project. They are behind the numerous “accidents” at the site, though their culpability in the plight of Mia’s dad is glossed over. They do make up for that anyhow, by helping Mia on her journey, despite their silly blundering and arguing.

  6. Synopsis. One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of ...

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  8. "Mia and the Migoo" is certainly more worthy children's fare than most commercial American kid pics, but while some stunning visuals may sweep you away, the story's choppy flow will not. Still, there's adventure aplenty, including shooting waterfalls and helicopter rides, for the kids.

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