“Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime,” Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) infamously said in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy , though comedy has been anything but king at the box office for the past several years. Apart from name recognition titles like Barbie , Beetlejuice , and Ghostbusters , the struggle is real out there. It did not get much better this weekend when the genre delivered one of those very recognizable titles and it failed to live up to expectations and its critical lauding. But could an animated title with some name recognition of its own break a longstanding late summer curse against the genre?

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