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qeutiepei 2012-05-26 08:40:21

Loved the movie entirely

Thankfully, I am more native than anything. The storyline fits with thelifestyles of the Natives to their country. I have looked in manytitles to locate this movie. My grandchildren loved it and that wasimportant to me. It didn't scare my youngest grand baby which in todaysfilm-making seem to get a great joy out of doing. It was ageappropriate for my next generation.The fact that it was an animation kept me from looking to see what elsecould be done. The shadowing and gradients were fine for the viewing.It was in fact an animation. It irritates me that cartoons are sodepicted that they are almost real. take some of the creativity back astep. 2D graphics are still OK. Not everyone has to be on the level ofnatural drawing. stick figures are still fun.creativity should be funand this was that.If this movie was available now, I would purchase it. Not because ithas been fine tuned and written so well that you cant tell if it isreal or "ameriteque". Children are more interested in cartoons beingable to do something than to watch real life do it.This movie is a must see if you have small influential children thatare trained within this realm. I also wouldn't mind a soundtrack tothis. My mother and god-mother both loved the soundtrack.

Dejan Kober 2012-05-25 20:32:24

It's OK, but confusing.

My main problem with this animated film was his story and presentationof that story to viewer. First of all, I don't know anything aboutnative American legends and stories, so I think that anybody who is notfamiliar with that, will have trouble following this story. They havespend more running time of this film on stupid and many times seenattempts at slapstick comedy, then on explaining story to someone forwho is this first contact with this mythology. And story issues aremain problem with most of recent animated films; you can't compete withPixar on visual and animation field, but you can be creative withstory, and story development.Next thing that I didn't like, was visual style of some characters;they had "fake" shading; some shadows and highlights ware simplypainted on texture of characters. Even that look kind of good in somesituations, and it was in style with overall visual feel of film, butunfortunately it looked weird and bad in most of situations. That madecharacters look "artificial" and lifeless; except few hard shadows, andsome direct light, there was little or none visual interaction ofcharacters with environment.What I liked, was music witch was nicely composed and made nice audiomood, and I liked animation of characters; some characters wareanimated better then others, but lucky there was more good animation,then mediocre or bad one. Good animation of characters kind of fixedbad lighting and texturing, and also made characters interesting.So, in the end, this film is nothing special, and if you don't knowback story you will be confused. Watch it if you don't have anythingsmarter to do. Story: 3/10 Visuals: 4/10 Animation: 8/10 Comedy: 4/10 Audio: 7/10Action: 6/10OVERALL: 5/10