You won’t be surprised to learn that “Ferdinand,” the new animated feature based on the beloved 1936 children’s book, manages to find a way to put the titular bull into a literal china shop.

Ferdinand is Blue Sky Studios’ twelfth animated feature film. Director Carlos Saldanha, whose most recent outing was Rio 2, directed this adaptation of Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s 1936 ...

★ ★ ½ ferdinand Directed by Carlos Saldanha. Written by Robert L. Baird, Tim Federle, and Brad Copeland, based on “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson.

You won’t be surprised to learn that “Ferdinand,” the new animated feature based on the beloved 1936 children’s book, manages to find a way to put the titular bull into a literal china shop.