Vic le viking 2: Le marteau de Thor

A fun kids film thats enjoyable when you have kids around.

Before I review, few words please to let you know that I am just sharing this review to keep up with my discipline of writing and sharing reviews as and when I see a film in a theater or on Big Screen.

I caught up with this film yesterday night at the Children's film festival at Lalitha Kala Thoranam with my nephew and my sister. It was fun in many ways to be seeing kids film with so many kids around.

This is a German film and I am surprised how many kids gathered to see this and my nephew was interpreting most of the film perfectly fine, I was in awe with the knowledge and ideas todays kids have.

The movie is a fable like story where a boy loses his father to an evil man and must get him back. It was a simple enough story that was made interesting by some wonderful shots. It is an adventure that shot akin Harry Potter. I believe so, many will mostly like this considering the simplicity it has. The film is done simply with noble intention of presenting a story with a moral. The boy rises above odds and uses his powers and gets back his father and wins over the evil.

The production qualities were good and certain shots made in Computer Graphics were amazing. The art direction was great too. But I am not over impressed by the story as it is more a common place story than a different or a special one which you might expect at a film festival. Also, I loved a few dialogs which were humorous. The acting by most actors was very funny even silly and yet so apt. It's good that most of the acting brought out laughs.

I am going with 3/5 with this film. Above all, I loved the atmosphere and watching kids laughing and screaming at movies.

This is an attractive and decent entertainment , the tale is inventive as well as epic, and there's always enough events to keep the spectator interested . Entertaining and funny rendition based on the classic series of the 70s . Amusing movie based on the successful German-Austrian cartoon series , here are correctly adapted on real images . This charming film packs exotic adventures , comedy , noisy action and wonderful outdoors . Long ago, in a small Viking Village called Flake , a little boy , the clever Wickie (Jonas Hammerle) lives a happy life with his parents . The young Viking uses to accompany his father, the chief of their village, and his men on their adventures and often Wickie is the person who uses his wit and instincts to help the men in their times of need . His daddy, Halvar (Waldemar Kobus), is the chief of the Vikings, and would have liked a son a little more valiant and less fearful ; Vickie usually accompanies his dad, and his warriors on their adventures and often is the young who uses his wit and instincts to help the friends in their times of need . Havar orders his underlings to steal a knights convoy . The warriors have to take over but fail to see tiny Wicki being kidnapped with a cargo of Eskimo slaves, who also carry a strange manuscript on the eternal ice palace containing the Norse gods' treasure . Wickie and the Eskimo-slaves are in the slave-carriage but they escape . Yet, chief Halvar is trapped or hopelessly stuck somewhere and kidnapped by the nasty Sven (Gunther Kauffmann) and it's up to Wickie alone to help them out with his flashes of wit . So, Snorre (Christian Koch) , Tjore , Urobe take Wickie along on their voyages to give him the experience he'll need to be an actual Viking . Our friends go out to rescue their chief on their ship , the Viking Drakkar, and Vickie aboard as a captain towards the gorge of Odin .

This fun movie contains adventures , emotion , humor , thrills , fights in Terence Hill-Bud Spencer style and results to be pretty entertaining . The actors are mostly unknown though enjoyable , almost every role has an appropriate resemblance to his or her cartoon counterpart and the performances are adequate . Most actors from first version repeat characters such as the likable Wickie well played by Jonas Hämmerle , Waldemar Kobus as Halvar , Nic Romm as Tjure , Christian Koch as Snorre , Olaf Krätke as Urobe and Günther Kaufmann as Der Schreckliche Sven , among others . Not only did the story convey us to great and funny adventures, it also showed how to solve problems without the use of force . A likable Vickie , he is an ordinary viking boy , he is also not very strong but with his flashes of intelligence saves the day , helping the crew to resolve the numerous problems they suffer . The movie looks and sounds amazing , if it had been a high-budget Hollywood production there probably wouldn't have been too much of a difference to the product at hand , apart from the addition of some overdone special effects made by computer generator . The music composers Nick Reich and Ralf Wengenmayr composed a magnificent work fitting the original melodies into the soundtrack as well as adding some new ones which really matched the film's mood. Colorful and evocative cinematography by Christian Rein .

The motion picture lavishly produced by Christian Becker , Constantine Films and Rat Pack was well and originally directed by Christian Ditter . The flick is as good as the original directed Michael Bully Herbig . Being even more spectacular and thrilling than the first version . Filmmaker Ditter is an expert on children and teen flicks as proved in "French for Beginners" , ¨The Crocodiles ¨and its sequel "The Crocodiles Strike Back" . Rating : 6,5 . Acceptable adventure film appointed for children and adolescents and ,of course, for vintage series fonds . Well worth seeing .