Remember Commander McBragg, that eccentric British embellisher who retold his exotic adventures during segments within “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” and “Underdog”? Now imagine a whole movie with Commander McBragg, and you might come up with something like the delightful new animated film “Missing Link.”

Carrying on the tradition of Commander McBragg (and for that matter, Baron Munchausen) is Lionel Frost (voice of Hugh Jackman), a 19th century British adventurer who, as the movie opens, is with his latest hapless assistant battling the Loch Ness monster. Despite this close encounter, he fails to bring proof back to the explorers society in London he wishes to join.

Denied membership again by the pompous Lord Piggot-Dunceb(Stephen Fry) — who seems based on the old British character actor C. Aubrey Smith,which inspired the Commander McBragg character — Frost turns to his next big discovery and focuses on the legend of the Sasquatchin the Pacific Northwest.

When he finds the creature, it turns out he speaks perfect English (in the voice of Zach Galifianakis). So this 8-foot-tall, orange bigfoot really is the missing link between prehistoric man and modern humans. But he is the last of his kind, and doesn’t even have a name. Frost dubs him “link,” and in the spirit of adventure, agrees to take him to the Himalayas so that he can live with the yetis, his biological cousins.

To get to the Himalayas, where Frost has never been, he needs a map, which is in the possession of the widow of a rival explorer. They detour to California and get the map — and a new partner in the widow, Adelina Fortnight(Zoe Saldana), a spark plug who provides a much-needed check on Frost’s enormous ego.

Written and directed with flair by Chris Butler, a British animator who also made the wonderful “ParaNorman” (2012) and wrote the screenplay to the Oscar-nominated “Kubo and the Two Strings” (2016), “Missing Link” is satisfying with several nice visual touches, including a bravura fight sequence aboard an ocean freighter being tossed by massive waves.

It’s hardly a masterpiece — it’s a fairly simple tale, well told, with a silly, derivative climax and rather disappointingly brief depiction of the yeti culture. Yet it is blessedly devoid of the manic, ADD pace of many animated movies, with a winning trio of characters.

As Commander McBragg might say, “Jolly good show!”

M“Missing Link”:Animated. With the voices of Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, Zoe Saldana. Directed by Chris Butler. (Rated PG.)Theaters and Showtimes