Crwthod
A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
Hadrina
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Maleeha Vincent
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
TheLittleSongbird
I am a huge animation fan, and always have been, and most likely will always be. I always watch any movie to pass my own judgement, and although the trailer was not good at all, that didn't stop me from seeing Delgo online. And overall, while it is not the worst animated film ever or the worst movie ever, I was left unimpressed.I thought Delgo did have a good concept, to me it sounded as though it was going to be epic and sweeping. Also the backgrounds are quite nice, with beautiful colours.However, I was not impressed with the character designs which were not only forced and ugly but also bad video-game level. The music is also rather generic with few memorable themes. The dialogue is roundly poor, with the comedy particularly wretched, while the story is predictable, badly paced and very disjointed with some moments of inspiration but other moments of sheer clumsiness and the characters are clichéd, barely likable and I found myself indifferent to every single one of them.The voice acting on the whole is rather bland, yes even the wonderful Anne Bancroft. Freddie Pinze Jnr especially sounds bored, and Chris Kattan like his character is very obnoxious. So all in all, rather unimpressive and disappointing. 3/10 Bethany Cox
jjack929
The real awful thing about this movie is that it was barely (if even) advertised, which is the only real reason I can see for it having bombed in the theatres. If you keep in mind that this is a kids' movie, you'll enjoy it; if you go in expecting a complicated plot, lots of graphic violence, swearing, or whatever else, you'll think it was lame.The story is simple and typical of adventure movies for kids, but what did you expect? It's got a superb cast of voices, the graphics style is fresh and innovative, and perhaps with the exception of the comic relief character Filo, the characters are likable (Filo goes way beyond overboard, but again, he's there to keep kids watching and laughing). The animation is well done, only getting weird in bits where they seemed to be trying to make comic-relief characters funnier - which was obviously done to keep the attention of its younger audience. Finally, the world it's set in is beautiful, making one wish the movie were perhaps longer and more in-depth, but again, it's a kids' movie.The people writing reviews trashing this movie have serious issues. I imagine the majority of them will find what they are looking for in James Cameron's "Avatar" when that gets released. But if you're looking for something to show your kids, or because you want to see something fantasy-adventurish, give this a try. As long as you keep the title of this review in mind, you'll enjoy it. It's not terrible by a long shot.The only thing spoilerish that I will write in this review is that a few characters do die in this movie, so the PG-rating is appropriate.
mergatroid-1
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.
adaringdo-1
I admit the animation was wonderful. The initial use of alien creatures was right on the mark -- special -- creative -- enticing... the voices were amazing throughout, but then there's the pesky need for a good story.As an author of 11 scripts I noticed the scripted flaws immediately and continuously. The introduction narrative was completely unnecessary and should have been incorporated (if at all) into the movie as it unfolded.The logic and progression of plot points were very flawed: so much so that I was annoyed that the film turned away from its initial strength 'originality' and fell on the sword of blandness. The reason so many people keep saying this film in plagiarism is simply because it follows such common event sequences you can't help but compare it to many other movies: Camelot (guards attacking the helpful hero), Star Wars (comic relief was the mirror image of a famous Gungan), Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty (hero finds a lost item, evil dragon lady,) and even the Lion King (when you see it you'll understand), etc.The script was quite frankly pathetic in parts, but also (to be fair) had some moments of honesty. Those moments were presented but then lost when the script failed to follow-up on the logic thread.So much of the movie is filled with clichés, and the comic relief was really annoying -- not funny -- that I was totally outside the movie and making remarks to myself (OMG, please not that, YGTBKM) instead of flowing along with the action. By the way, I was the only person in the theater. When I asked the ticket person if the movie was worth the price he said, "Opening day sold only 2 tickets." What this story has in beautiful animation and initial originality (the first few minutes) was completely lost to illogic. The amazing creatures were pushed to the background for the most part and the main characters were developed by narrative not action. We were usually told, not shown (or allowed) to feel with the characters. There was no character growth as such, just a jarring thump from one sequence to another as if the characters were puppets on a string.How sad that what could have been a great adventure turned into trivialities. I would just like to say the burning bush had such possibilities.
