“Migration” takes it one step further; it’s not a road trip, it’s a checklist. Mack and Pam Mallard (voice of Kumail Nanjiani and Elizabeth Banks) are ducks raising two ducklings, Dax and ...

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But their latest, Migration, carries a faintly more parental perspective. Its central character is a father duck, Mack Mallard (Kumail Nanjiani), whose fears and paranoia have kept his feathered ...

Unwisely pitched by creator Benjamin Renner as "Little Miss Sunshine but with ducks", Migration lacks any of the wit or world-weary wisdom present in that 2006 Oscar-winning comedy.