Archika Khurana, TNN, Feb 17, 2021, 10.53 PM ISTCritic's Rating: 3.0/5
STORY: Based on the Newbery Award-winning book (Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo), a 10-year old Flora names a squirrel Ulysses after rescuing him. Soon enough she discovers that he has unique superhero powers that take them on an adventurous ride.
REVIEW: ‘Flora & Ulysses’ is the story of an avid comic book fan and a cynical girl, Flora Buckman (Matilda Lawler). Despite the contract, her mother Phyllis (Alyson Hannigan) makes her sign a deal that loosely translates to this: turn her face away from the comics. A feisty Flora avidly follows her superhero’s adventures and lives in her imaginative world. Phyllis is a struggling romance novelist who seems to be in love with her books more than her family. However, Flora always misses her father George (Ben Schwartz) and the superheroes comic scripts he had created that unfortunately couldn’t get published. One day, in the wake of rescuing a squirrel (Ulysses) from a mishap, Flora is thrilled to learn that he’s acquired superpowers. This changes her outlook towards superheroes from ‘they never show up in reality as they are just in the head’ to ‘all superheroes come to us for a purpose’.