ridiculionius This movie could've been a lot better. It had its good moments, but those are quickly forgotten when they stand in the shadow of the lame script and 2-dimensional characters. The plot is your standard "warring countries just a result of misunderstanding and solved by a romance" tale, with the Lockni and Nohrin tribes set against each other due to land-grabbing and an ambitious Nohrin noble. When Sedessa (Anne Bancroft), the Nohrin King's younger sister, begins to slaughter the Lockni people in order to gain more of their land, she is quickly disinherited by the peaceful King. In an attempt to get back at her brother, Sedessa poisons his wife and would've done away with him, too, if his infant daughter hadn't awoken him with her cries. Banished and removed of the wings that all Nohrin people have, Sedessa rallies the dull-witted and violent goblin creatures in her new home, seeking her revenge. 15 years later, a Lockni teen named Delgo (Freddie Prinze Jr.) meets Princess Kyla (Jennifer Love- Hewitt) of the Nohrin, and sparks fly. When Delgo is framed for kidnapping Kyla, it is up to him, his fumbling friend Filo (Chris Kattan), and a disgraced General named Bogardus (Val Kilmer) to stop Sedessa and rescue the princess before all hell breaks loose. The story, despite its generic nature, is fun and engaging. The world that the film creates is beautiful and exotic, populated by bizarre creatures and featuring some wonderfully animated landscapes. The violence is spectacularly done, and can even be quite dark at times. If nothing else, it is a treat to watch, and that's saying something considering that this film wasn't done by any big-budget companies. The script is where the movie falls flat. The dialogue is even more generic than the plot, and it provides little to no character development. Delgo is a pretty run-of-the-mill teen hero, and his romance with Kyla (an even less fleshed-out character) is dry and unbelievable. Filo, who is supposedly the comedy-relief, is more irritating than funny - he talks far too much and his voice can get incredibly grating. Sedessa's henchman Spig (Eric Idle) is much funnier, despite the fact that his role is much smaller. Sedessa herself is pretty smooth and enjoyable to watch, though her motivation is weak and she just comes off as petty at times. The best character by far is General Bogardus, who actually has a complete story arc and some (attempted) development. Overall, Delgo was an OK movie - there are many moments where you can see the potential shining through, and it's almost sad to know how great the film could've been. It's nothing special, but it's still fun and enjoyable, simply for the action scenes and the animation in general. I wouldn't recommend you see it anytime soon, but there's definitely no harm in doing so.

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.

force5seal This movie was an enjoyable archetypal hero story that used a wholly creative new style of animation that I have not seen before creating a very strong feel to the film. The visuals were absolutely vivid. Fast paced, sometimes to its own detriment, this movie does a great job of keeping the story moving but often short changes some details that could lead to stronger character development. However if this movie in fact is a part of a trilogy as has been proposed, then this is a strong start setting the stage for more complex character development and even greater involvement in this fantasy world that clearly had a lot of thought and depth to it. I liked it. The characters each grew and evolved throughout the film. Even if only slightly, the changes were noticeable. The all-star cast lends charisma and charm to the characters. I felt immersed in their alien world. I felt that the characters were both real and grounded. They didn't consist of airy nothingness like the characters in so many created worlds. It was an interesting story based on political mistrust, fear, diversity, misunderstanding, and love. It was a movie that we can relate to and that can inspire. Go see it. More than anything this movie suffered from a total lack of an advertising campaign. With no advertisement it is no surprise that this movie had such a poor start.

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.