The effort was there...no, really...
However, it just didn't have much charm to it. Look, I know stop animation stuff takes time, effort, and all that other stuff, but this really didn't seem all that special. In fact, you can tell that not even a fourth of this movie is actual stop frame. The portion that is isn't really all that great and there wasn't much detail to it. Normally, stop animation stuff I would give a higher rating...but as I said, it just wasn't all that great.