Bardlerx Strictly average movie

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Angels_Review Well, this is a really really old video and let's say that for its time, it might have been very high class but now, it feels like it lacks a lot. The animation is low quality and the voices feel forced and scripted.Horus seems to not think about what he is about to do, his heart being in the right place but his head just doesn't seem to be happening there. He was made to be the purest of the pure but they made him come out as a rather young child, younger then he should be. Other characters randomly sing and makes it feel like we are in a old Disney movie.The animation is really old and they cut corners constantly. They reuse clips a lot and also jump around without any explanation on why they are except that they are traveling. Both people and animals look rather blotchy and not a lot of detail. In order to not animate some of the faces, they are covered in thick bushes of hair from eyebrows and beards.The script sounds cheesy in the English version, where the voice actors feel as though they are just reading lines. It's rather narrative and descriptive in the beginning and then loses a lot of that as the story goes on, not explaining enough when it needs to later on. It feels like it should have been much shorter. They did do a good job matching the voices though so it does get some props for that.

thisissubtitledmovies excerpt, more at my location - Developed and created in 1968, Isao Takahata's first feature-length outing fuses Japanese and Norse philosophies and mythologies into the charmingly grown-up children's tale that is The Little Norse Prince. While the impact of The Little Norse Prince resonates even in today's modern anime, as an individual film, it is a triumphant hallmark of sublime animation and an adult story with genuine heart, warmth, danger and menace that the talking squirrels of Disney's preceding '60s sword film (The Sword In The Stone) could only dream of achieving. The originality that The Little Norse Prince exudes is nothing short of impressive, as his anti-aging formula transports us back in time to makes us feel young and vulnerable. While it may not be the greatest anime of all time, it is nothing short of being the most important.

Tweekums Having seen Isao Takahata's Ghibli films I was interested to see this much earlier work so when it was on television I couldn't not watch it. Not surprisingly it feels much older than his later work but it didn't feel out dated.The story opens with a boy called Horusu fighting off a pack of wolves. They fighting awakens a strange rock giant who is bothered by a thorn in his shoulder, much to the giants surprise Horusu extracts the thorn which turns out to be an ancient sword. He returns with the sword to his dying father who tells him that their family came from a village in the North that had been devastated by an evil sorcerer called Grunwald. When his father dies he heads North where he meets Grunwald who casts him from a mountain and believes him to be dead. Of course he survives though as is found by a child who takes him back to a village. The people there are being tormented because a giant pike is eating all the fish in the river. Horusu sets off and after a struggle manages to kill the creature and the fish return to the river, this leads to him being hailed as a hero. Later in an almost deserted village Horusu meets a girl called Hilda who he invites back to the village where to locals are enchanted by her beautiful singing. At least most of them are, the mayor is clearly upset that Horusu and now Hilda are so popular and his deputy who is an agent of Grunwald. I won't say more about the plot as I wouldn't want to spoil the ending.I really enjoyed this even though it if fairly different, it certainly felt like it was targeted at a younger audience than his later works, I was surprised for example when characters had conversations with their pets. The animation was good, especially considering its age. If you've enjoyed Studio Ghibli films I'd certainly recommend this film.These comments were based on watching the film in Japanese with English subtitles.

siderite I can only imagine how hard it was to do an animation such as this in 1968. At the time Disney was doing Mickey Mouse animation (the squeaky voice ones) and Yellow Submarine was released.However, as in most Isao Takahata animes the focus is not on the animation, but on the script. People battle against the forces of evil using their most powerful weapon: will power. Evil comes in the form of bad luck, misfortune, direct attacks and sneaky social manipulation. Good's champion is a boy that has come to fulfill his dying father's last wish. You can find love, betrayal, anger, violence, marital ceremonies, friendship, all the hallmarks of good Japanese anime.OK, the animation is not great. There are whole scenes of static images that are filmed , for example. Also, there is a plague that Disney is just now getting rid of, the plague of group songs in the middle of the film. But there are a lot of good things that overcome by far the bad parts. It's like a battle of good versus evil in its own :)Doesn't hurt to mention Hayao Miyazaki, which is humbly placed somewhere in the middle of the crew list, as an animator and scene designer. As far as I know this is his first work, but you already find a lot of elements that will appear in all his work from then on.Any anime fanatic must watch this. Children or very young people might get slightly bored.