Some of the other reviews for this movie are completely ridiculous. One person saying how expert he is at movies stating how much better of a job he could have done. Yeah sure buddy, that's why they hired you right? Another person says how he has done 10 or 15 scripts and how he could point out all the script errors and how bad the logical progression of the story was. Uh huh. I guess 10 or 15 scripts makes you an expert.
These two people both say this is one of the worst things they have even seen. I must say, as I have in my other reviews, that if they think this is anywhere near the worst movies, then they cannot possibly have seen very many movies considering they both claim to be experts. Once again I say I have at least 50 movies in my 500 strong collection that are WAY WAY WAY worse than this movie.
I bought this movie because it was an animation I had never heard of before. When I got home first thing I did was come here and check out the reviews. Since there were a few OK reviews, and a few scathing reviews, I was sort of expecting it to be a pretty bad movie.
First thing I have to say about it is: If this movie was the studio's first attempt at a movie quality animation, then congratulations to the studio because for a first time animation they did a darn good job.
I found the story and the script to be perfectly fine. The logical progression was also fine. I understood every plot point, and agreed with everything that was happening in the story. Perhaps that one reviewer needed a few classes in logic. Perhaps this may be a good reason why people who work in "the industry" shouldn't be allowed to review movies. I know I work as a technologist, and whenever I see a TV or computer, I can always point out flaws that other people don't see.
The movie is about two different races, one powerful and one benign. The powerful race's land is destroyed (never explained) and so they ask permission to move their people into the other race's land. This is agreed to until the first race starts taking too much land, and a war results. This war is instigated by the powerful race's king's sister without permission of the king. As a result the king gives her the boot and disowns her. For revenge she kills the queen. At this, the king has her wings cut off and banishes her.
Years later, there is a peace but tension between the two races. The king's daughter meets a young man from the other race, and they begin to fall for each other. At this point, it's revealed that the king's sister is still alive and has amassed an army. She and a few traitors on the king's staff plot to overthrow the king, starting by fueling the tension between the two races instigating a war. The kings daughter is kidnapped by his sister, and the 2nd race gets blamed. However the young man who was falling in love with her goes off to rescue her and they both come back to help stop the war, rescue the king and take care of the evil sister and her cohorts.
As you can see, there is no problem with the logic here, and while the story is a little formulaic it's not a ripoff of any other story.
As for the animation, it's not up to Pixar or Dreamworks standards, but it's their first attempt so give them a break.
One reviewer said he recognized the backgrounds from circa 1980 video games. This couldn't be further from the truth, especially since I have been working with and owning computers since the days of the Timex/Sinclare 1000 and the Commodore PET. I know a video game quality background when I see one, and this wasn't it.
The backgrounds were fine, and about on par with any other animation.
The characters were not perfectly animated. They reminded me slightly of the animation work done by Mainframe Entertainment (Reboot, Beast Wars). The movie is actually better animation than the older Mainframe productions. There was an ever so slight amount of the older animation "jitter", and the movement was not perfect. However, this bodes well for their next attempt. I would expect it to be even better.
The art was really very well done. There are a lot of very odd fantastical creatures. I enjoyed every minute of watching this movie.
My own personal scale I rate my movies on in my database is from 1 to 5, and I would give this movie a 3. Middle of the road, not bad but not the best either. Kids will love it. I would put it on par with Fern Gully or maybe Happily Never After.
Buy it for your kids, they'll love it and if you're an animation lover, you will enjoy it too.
These two people both say this is one of the worst things they have even seen. I must say, as I have in my other reviews, that if they think this is anywhere near the worst movies, then they cannot possibly have seen very many movies considering they both claim to be experts. Once again I say I have at least 50 movies in my 500 strong collection that are WAY WAY WAY worse than this movie.
I bought this movie because it was an animation I had never heard of before. When I got home first thing I did was come here and check out the reviews. Since there were a few OK reviews, and a few scathing reviews, I was sort of expecting it to be a pretty bad movie.
First thing I have to say about it is: If this movie was the studio's first attempt at a movie quality animation, then congratulations to the studio because for a first time animation they did a darn good job.
I found the story and the script to be perfectly fine. The logical progression was also fine. I understood every plot point, and agreed with everything that was happening in the story. Perhaps that one reviewer needed a few classes in logic. Perhaps this may be a good reason why people who work in "the industry" shouldn't be allowed to review movies. I know I work as a technologist, and whenever I see a TV or computer, I can always point out flaws that other people don't see.
The movie is about two different races, one powerful and one benign. The powerful race's land is destroyed (never explained) and so they ask permission to move their people into the other race's land. This is agreed to until the first race starts taking too much land, and a war results. This war is instigated by the powerful race's king's sister without permission of the king. As a result the king gives her the boot and disowns her. For revenge she kills the queen. At this, the king has her wings cut off and banishes her.
Years later, there is a peace but tension between the two races. The king's daughter meets a young man from the other race, and they begin to fall for each other. At this point, it's revealed that the king's sister is still alive and has amassed an army. She and a few traitors on the king's staff plot to overthrow the king, starting by fueling the tension between the two races instigating a war. The kings daughter is kidnapped by his sister, and the 2nd race gets blamed. However the young man who was falling in love with her goes off to rescue her and they both come back to help stop the war, rescue the king and take care of the evil sister and her cohorts.
As you can see, there is no problem with the logic here, and while the story is a little formulaic it's not a ripoff of any other story.
As for the animation, it's not up to Pixar or Dreamworks standards, but it's their first attempt so give them a break.
One reviewer said he recognized the backgrounds from circa 1980 video games. This couldn't be further from the truth, especially since I have been working with and owning computers since the days of the Timex/Sinclare 1000 and the Commodore PET. I know a video game quality background when I see one, and this wasn't it.
The backgrounds were fine, and about on par with any other animation.
The characters were not perfectly animated. They reminded me slightly of the animation work done by Mainframe Entertainment (Reboot, Beast Wars). The movie is actually better animation than the older Mainframe productions. There was an ever so slight amount of the older animation "jitter", and the movement was not perfect. However, this bodes well for their next attempt. I would expect it to be even better.
The art was really very well done. There are a lot of very odd fantastical creatures. I enjoyed every minute of watching this movie.
My own personal scale I rate my movies on in my database is from 1 to 5, and I would give this movie a 3. Middle of the road, not bad but not the best either. Kids will love it. I would put it on par with Fern Gully or maybe Happily Never After.
Buy it for your kids, they'll love it and if you're an animation lover, you will enjoy it too.