Calvin Johnson

If you think you’d like R-Rated fantasy animation, you’ll love this show. Captures the soul of D&D while weaving a masterful tapestry of storytelling. All seven characters will be your favorite.

I am not exaggerating. This movie is in my top ten movies of all time. As far as I’m concerned, it’s pretty much perfect. It’s also the most underrated movie I’ve ever seen. This film is treated like a random kids movie, when it is kind of a masterpiece. The animation is absolutely stunning, with brilliant character designs and beautiful landscapes, with some truly surreal scenes. It’s a smart movie, with incredible foreshadowing and symbolism, and a strong theme of identity, progress, and what it means to find yourself, or be a hero. The “other side of the road,” scene is my favorite scene in all of cinema. The scene has beautiful animation, paired with what is probably my favorite piece of music ever, by Danny Elfman, and some of the most powerful symbolism I’ve ever seen. It’s a good liar reveal movie. I firmly stand by that something shouldn’t be attacked for being a cliche if it’s done right. This “cliche” is done right. The “twist” can be seen from a mile away, but the movie is clearly designed that way. It’s not meant to be a surprise. We’re supposed to connect the dots. There are some genuine surprises in here, where foreshadowing pays off. There are some very heroic and earned moments in this movie. The music is also very good. Besides that one scene I mentioned , the score is still excellent, and it’s probably the best western theme I’ve heard since “the good, the bad, and the ugly.” The action is genuinely good. The March of the Valkyrie sequence is really well done, and the hawk scenes in the beginning are hilarious. Also, yeah, it’s very funny. That’s one of the least important bits to me, but it’s probably what general audience will remember the most. The only problem with this movie, seems to be that it’s so underrated, that many people who love it will still forget about it, with nobody else around to talk about it or keep it’s memory alive. This movie is GOOD. Genuinely amazing. It gets almost no respect, because it’s a Nickelodeon movie, and therefore it is doomed to never be held at the standard it should be at. If this movie had been made by Dreamworks or Disney, it would have been a classic.

An absolutely brilliant movie. It has a strong message against Nazis, hate, and discrimination, propaganda, and tyranny; and it also sends a strong message of hope. It tells us that even surrounded by bad people and influences, we can still overcome, and should strive be better. And of course, we need to remember to show that we are grateful to be alive. I shouldn’t have to say this, but I guess I have to. I would like to remind everyone who read criticism on this movie that it’s safer for a reviewer to criticize it than to not, since there will be people who will judge this movie off its cover and will still try and damage reviewers’ careers for liking it. That doesn’t go for all of them, of course, but it’s a bias the reviewers would all have before they even watched the movie, and many could have subconsciously looking for a reason to discredit it while watching. Just a thought. I’ve read the criticism, and sometimes it feels like they had the movie described to them, and had not watched it themself. More than one claim that it’s a cop out because it’s not about modern nazism or the alt right. One: That’s like saying ears are bad because eyes are better, and Two: The Neo Nazis have only become a huge talking point in more recent years, mostly because of events like Charlottesville, and this script was written before all of that. This movie clearly hates Nazis, and the whole point of it is basically to get you to also hate Nazis. It’s not “problematic.”