Before I go further, ask yourself, when did Little Mermaid come out? Then ask yourself, when did Jurassic park come out?
1989, 1994. Aladdin? Here's the kicker.. 1992, same year as Princess and the Goblin.
The reason I bring those films up is because, not only because of their success, but because of the sheer technical brilliance of the animation. Sure, some of Jurassic parks dinosaurs were made with robots, but it was also the starting points of major 3-D Animation. Which means back in 1992, they had the skill to produce a good movie. Not three years later did the first all CGI TV show premier on Saturday morning.
The point is, the princess and the goblin was gipped. I can see the potential for a good story here, but with shoddy characters and character design, and the only good quality this movie had to boast about were the background and water animation..
Let me continue on with the characters. Irené, the leading lady, was dense as a pickle. In fact you got more from a pickle, like, spice, pizazz. this kid has no personality, and was the poster child for cliché animated mannerisms. IE, every single girlish pose, she does in this movie.
Next is Curdie, who's a broken record, repeating himself over and over with the key to stopping the goblins with not a witty repartee in the mix. He was NO Aladdin.
Honestly this movie reminded me more of early low budget anime made in japan then it did a feature film.
The villains, actually, had the most potential, I thought, they fought dirty, they were dark, but, yet again, they were brought down by the poor presentation. Froglips, as stated in his name, had this horrible lisp which only stole from his character. The mother I rather liked to a point, more towards the end of the movie, though, when she was fighting. Pacing and flow were something I gawked at. They would take a character away from a scene and often have no follow up scene to show any characters were effected by it. In short, this movie is so driven by plot that it ignores character development.
In short, this one's better left to clips on youtube.
1989, 1994. Aladdin? Here's the kicker.. 1992, same year as Princess and the Goblin.
The reason I bring those films up is because, not only because of their success, but because of the sheer technical brilliance of the animation. Sure, some of Jurassic parks dinosaurs were made with robots, but it was also the starting points of major 3-D Animation. Which means back in 1992, they had the skill to produce a good movie. Not three years later did the first all CGI TV show premier on Saturday morning.
The point is, the princess and the goblin was gipped. I can see the potential for a good story here, but with shoddy characters and character design, and the only good quality this movie had to boast about were the background and water animation..
Let me continue on with the characters. Irené, the leading lady, was dense as a pickle. In fact you got more from a pickle, like, spice, pizazz. this kid has no personality, and was the poster child for cliché animated mannerisms. IE, every single girlish pose, she does in this movie.
Next is Curdie, who's a broken record, repeating himself over and over with the key to stopping the goblins with not a witty repartee in the mix. He was NO Aladdin.
Honestly this movie reminded me more of early low budget anime made in japan then it did a feature film.
The villains, actually, had the most potential, I thought, they fought dirty, they were dark, but, yet again, they were brought down by the poor presentation. Froglips, as stated in his name, had this horrible lisp which only stole from his character. The mother I rather liked to a point, more towards the end of the movie, though, when she was fighting. Pacing and flow were something I gawked at. They would take a character away from a scene and often have no follow up scene to show any characters were effected by it. In short, this movie is so driven by plot that it ignores character development.
In short, this one's better left to clips on youtube.