This is certainly not what one would expect from a film famously about killer rats, with the first half centering on a kid and his love of marionettes. His relationship with Ben doesn't particularly make sense since they share a sandwich and are suddenly best friends. It at least sets up the total tonal disconnect between the weird humor of the marionette scenes to to ominous shots of Ben and his gang to the choppy final action sequence. Ben himself, at least, is very much ahead of his time, promoting an anti-bullying message when his human friend is harassed. Not having seen Willard, it's hard to say if this is merely spoofing that film up until the sewer-set finale. This plays like a dumb comedy, particularly when the rats invade a women's gym, terrorizing a fat woman on a treadmill and sending the ladies in the steamroom into hysteria.
The kid also composes the Oscar-nominated "Ben" on his own, which is fairly insulting to the actual songwriters since it insinuates a six-year-old could have penned it.
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