Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Alicia
I love this movie so much
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
doug-915-747467
I've watched this a couple times with the 3-yo and the 7-yo. We all like it. The kids have a low filter for engaging with an animated movie, but they lean in on this one like they do for good Ghibli movies.It is exciting but not crushingly scary; it interesting and creative, making good use of the opportunity to invent an imaginary world; fascinating and moody; it has obvious value lessons that the 7-yo expects to be in her movies, but also with a little twisting that she doesn't expect and needs to talk about; the ending seems a little abrupt, but perhaps that was the copy of that we were watching. I am over-voting it, but the current IMDb rating of ~6 is absurd.
TheLittleSongbird
I have been a big fan of animation for as long as I can remember. Dragon Hunters is not among the best I've seen, that said I have seen much worse. The film does have a lot of cuteness and charm particularly in the animation, characters and voice work. The story though is very simplistic and never really seems to rise above average, the characters do have personality but not development and the script has some fun and poignant moments but some of the comedic elements could've done with being more focused. However, the voice acting is solid across the board and the music compliments the film very well. The best asset is the animation, which is simply gorgeous, especially in the backgrounds where attention to detail is clearly evident and the colours are plentiful. One or two of the character designs are on the blocky side, but most are fine. In conclusion, nothing particularly special but it is cute and the visuals really make it work. 6.5/10 Bethany Cox
wewilsons
First time I saw this movie I was fascinated and have since watched it again and again. The storyline is one someone should have done years ago. The characters are only enough to tell the story. The time is instead spent developing the characters and setting up for the huge finish.The visually stunning world floating around is fascinating all by itself. The unique graphics to make a gravity defying universe must have been a huge effort. This is a different world than any you've seen. Who ever wrote the screen play really believed in the story to fill it out like they did, down to the little puffing plants. The people are not the best graphics but are a very characterized style which manage to be amusing particularly in motion.Fold in good characters, well developed by the end of the movie (the dog is awesome funny) new monsters and by the end you're totally rooting for the underdogs in the face of an unbelievable foe.Love it. Will always be one of my favorites and probably the biggest surprise hit to me of animation ever.
Christian Baer (Gullytrotter)
When you start watching this animation-masterpiece, you quickly notice, that it's a European production. Although the Europeans have (sadly) integrated some of the clichés you would normally find in an American production of this kind, most are missing. One of these is that there is an overwhelming evil that only our (very few and very unlikely) heroes can vanquish. Another is that one of the group is only in the business for the money, is greedy, runs away when the heat is up but somehow gives in to his better nature. This movie would have been better off without both.The movie is based upon a TV-Series that was out four years before the movie. Unlike the movie, the TV-Series is a cartoon and not a computer animation. At first I thought the computer would kill the charm and character of the plot but I was quickliy convinced: Whoever did the animation knew his or her stuff! Although the characters are obviously fictional (in stills they don't even look real), they seem as alive and sentient as the audience following their quest. Making characters who by "normal" standards could be considered deformed (those micro-legs could never carry that giant body let alone make it jump) so alive and lovable is more than "just a highlight"! The creation of the world is another masterpiece. Not so much because of its looks but because of the inventiveness of it. The world our heroes travel is not solid like our own but is made of many pieces of land varying in shape and size that seem to be floating in mid air. When a person steps on a smaller fragment of ground, it nods a little bit as if feathering from the weight. In some cases up and down no longer apply but our heroes still manage to get a foothold somewhere. Although the world of floating islands is completely surreal, in this movie it is absolutely believable and after a short time it doesn't seem any weirder than running into a car somewhere in New York.I wrote that the looks of the world aren't as breathtaking as the idea. As true as that might be to my mind, the quality of the world, the characters and the attention to details is staggering. Although the faces of the characters have relatively few attributes, emotions can be read as clearly as in Sean Connery's or Dustin Hoffman's face. The world around the characters is wonderfully colourful and no two settings are alike. The background is always in motion, something is always going on which makes the world seem even more alive. If you stop the movie and look at the background you will be surprised how many details you can find.The existence of Hector actually puts the cherry on top. Hector is a furry little "thing" (possibly the equivalent of a dog in our world) who is totally lovable and extremely funny. Although he isn't really important for the main plot, he would be missed like Scrat would be in Ice Age. The really cool thing about Hector is that you need to speak Gibberish to understand him.If the movie is so great, why didn't I give it 10 stars? Well, the plot in itself was rather thin. Two hunters are sent out to rescue the world from a really bad dragon who wants to swallow the world, isn't really original. That in itself wouldn't be much of a problem. What I missed was the background information. What kind of a dragon was this and why did it look that way? I love mythical stories but if they get too thin then they seem to be written after the movie is finished in a feeble attempt to give the whole thing some depth.Another thing I didn't like was Zoé. Although a little girl like her could be considered adorable, she was somewhat of a pain in this movie. She seemed pretty resistant to all types of learning about reality, kept dreaming of some hero from a story book and basically slowed the others down. She would have been OK if she had developed a little more and a little earlier in the movie - or had been less of a girly to start with. To me the idea of this girl who was there to twist the story a little backfired on the writers.All in all, this is a really good movie for just about all ages.