Legend of Gahoulie
Did I really watch it?
I did not want to watch this movie. When I saw the first trailers I told Lizzy I was not paying for this movie. Guess what, I didn't pay for it, she got free tickets and I promised her I'd go to most of the ones for which she got free tickets.
That said...
It was cute. It was pretty. It has a few plot holes and glaring cliches. But it is a family movie. It is about the bad guys nearly taking over and then the good guys winning and rescuing the day. The computer generated animation is nicely done. The music was even nice enough.
I liked it. Not enough to purchase. If I still had a little kid, yeah. But I don't. Do I regret seeing it? Um, actually I don't. Some day I might actually rent it from Netflix. It's a feel good family oriented movie. Yep, it has sad parts. It even has a bad guy who actually dies. Another gets away, but it's primarily a kids' movie so that's to be expected.
One really nice thing - it points out that heroic war stories or mythological hero stories are, at their very source, about war, death, and are not really happy stories. That's something few if any kid's movies portray. And yeah, that's from the perspective of the scared, worn out, almost forgotten war hero himself.
I did not want to watch this movie. When I saw the first trailers I told Lizzy I was not paying for this movie. Guess what, I didn't pay for it, she got free tickets and I promised her I'd go to most of the ones for which she got free tickets.
That said...
It was cute. It was pretty. It has a few plot holes and glaring cliches. But it is a family movie. It is about the bad guys nearly taking over and then the good guys winning and rescuing the day. The computer generated animation is nicely done. The music was even nice enough.
I liked it. Not enough to purchase. If I still had a little kid, yeah. But I don't. Do I regret seeing it? Um, actually I don't. Some day I might actually rent it from Netflix. It's a feel good family oriented movie. Yep, it has sad parts. It even has a bad guy who actually dies. Another gets away, but it's primarily a kids' movie so that's to be expected.
One really nice thing - it points out that heroic war stories or mythological hero stories are, at their very source, about war, death, and are not really happy stories. That's something few if any kid's movies portray. And yeah, that's from the perspective of the scared, worn out, almost forgotten war hero himself.