Quest for Camelot is the first attempt to a full animated feature by Warner Bros, and it shows.
This story of a young girl that dreams to become a knight and ends up saving the kingdom is a mixed dish of great and poor animation.
Oddly, the two main characters Kayley and his blind friend Garret are the worst: their animation is unnatural and the character design is unappealing. But the rest of the cast more than make up for them. Ruber, the evil knight and especially his gryphon Griffin are awesome, scary and funny at the same time. Bladebeak, a chicken transformed in a killing machine is hilarious.
But the best of the bunch is the odd couple Devon and Cornwall, a two headed dragon that looks straight out of Warner's Looney Tunes. This wacky character literary steals the scene: the movie really starts flying when we first meet him and keeps getting better.
The plot is original and fast paced, packed with wonderful action sequences and (luckily) few songs, all pretty decent.
The CG is sometime effective and sometimes poorly integrated, (the stone ogre is the worst example).
I heard a lot of bad things about this movie, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that is not half as bad as they say. Pity that it did poorly at the box office, it deserved much more.
I'm looking forward to the next movie from Warner, if they can fix some of the problem they had with this one, Disney may find another competitor.
This story of a young girl that dreams to become a knight and ends up saving the kingdom is a mixed dish of great and poor animation.
Oddly, the two main characters Kayley and his blind friend Garret are the worst: their animation is unnatural and the character design is unappealing. But the rest of the cast more than make up for them. Ruber, the evil knight and especially his gryphon Griffin are awesome, scary and funny at the same time. Bladebeak, a chicken transformed in a killing machine is hilarious.
But the best of the bunch is the odd couple Devon and Cornwall, a two headed dragon that looks straight out of Warner's Looney Tunes. This wacky character literary steals the scene: the movie really starts flying when we first meet him and keeps getting better.
The plot is original and fast paced, packed with wonderful action sequences and (luckily) few songs, all pretty decent.
The CG is sometime effective and sometimes poorly integrated, (the stone ogre is the worst example).
I heard a lot of bad things about this movie, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that is not half as bad as they say. Pity that it did poorly at the box office, it deserved much more.
I'm looking forward to the next movie from Warner, if they can fix some of the problem they had with this one, Disney may find another competitor.