BrightLight
Since: May, 2014
08/30/2015 00:00:00
Would it be a crime if I loved the movie and disliked the books?
Because that is the case for me, and I'm not backing down!
TheRealYuma
Since: Feb, 2014
10/18/2015 00:00:00
First off, this is from the same company that is known as "The Bastardizer of Fairy Tales." Secondly, fun fact: the creator of the books loves the movie.
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A bastardization of the Chronicles of Prydain
I give everything a chance to impress me, to educate me, to teach me something new.
All I learned from this disgrace was that, while I admired they were trying to do something new and different, I LOATHED the end-result in its entirety. A complete and utter betrayal and bastardization of the Chronicles of Prydain. Not to mention: it nearly destroyed Disney animation canon.
To understand why, you merely have to watch it and dispense with everything you came to know and love about Disney animations and simply examine the film by its own merits.
The first problem is the story building itself up, purely for the sake of being ominous, AND NOT actually telling a good well-thought-out story. The plot is dreadful, just dreadful. The prologue all by itself was so convoluted, so nonsensical about some evil Casper rubbish, it gave me a migraine. The good guys are idiots quite frankly, a bunch of do-nothings, assigning an oracle pig to a kid demonstrating a poor attention span? (Nobody is that stupid).
The villain driving the plot is an even bigger buffoon, openly admitted he was searching for an evil MacGuffin he wasn't even sure if it existed or not (Oh come on! Nobody is that stupid!).
But the witches "insidious scheme" takes the CAKE! They possess the means to take Taran's sword they want by FORCE, but rather prefer to Trade it for an evil artifact thingy. Their gambit is essentially hoping the false hero will either destroy or ruin himself, thus is either no longer alive or wanting the cauldron, leaving them to pick up the pieces and take it back. AND YET THEY HONESTLY DIDN'T THINK THAT IF HE WAS STILL ALIVE THAT HE'S NOT GOING TO WANT TO DO A TRADE BACK!?
No. Body. Is. That. Stupid.
These are shocking cases of bad writing. Coupled with nightmare fuel, disturbing scenery, its not suitable for the whole family. Which begs the question: WHY would Disney, who built a reputation on making family film flicks, secure the rights to an entire series of books if they didn't intend to make a proper series of adaptation!? That's NOT good business sense guys.
I'm just thankful they didn't do an adaptation of Lord Of The Rings...