Tabaluga

Habe to agree to the other reviews here. We had to leave the cinema with two almost 5 year olds since they were afraid of the scary snowman. Still have nightmares after days...

The kid (5 year old, hasn't seen more than five feature length movies in her life), liked it well enough, so that's good enough I guess? Everything is great if you experience it for the first time or something? Mission accomplished movie.

1 star for that, one for the world itself even if there could have been done more with it, and another because while rehashed, the messages are at least timeless and good.

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As for the movie being frightening. While my kid wasn't, so what? Kids need to be frightened sometimes. It's a good learning experience and if anything a plus. Nightmares or no nightmares. If your kid is frightened by this, talk about it. It'll be fine soon enough.

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Now. I like kids movies. if there's anything good in them. Be it jokes for the adults, charm, great animation, creativity, or even just plain goofy fun.

There's nothing, NOTHING, suprising, funny or original in this movie. Clichee characters, story, jokes, everything. To the last detail, everything this movie has, you have seen somewhere else, just better. It's almost funny to remember the movies this one plucked its stereotypical beats from.

I'm not expecting Pixar quality in the animation department from a mediocre budget German production, but I *do* expect a certain amount of script quality or some fresh ideas, wether it's a movie for small kids or not. Wether it's an adaptation or not. Give me SOMETHING movie! It didn't. Nothing. This movie is completely devoid of any and all creativity. Which is sad to see. The property itself is a great thing for kids, sad they didn't do much with it.

Maybe I'm jaded and seen to many movies.

As a final sidenote, this movie is based on a weird rockmusical thing for kids, so there are a few "rock"... ish songs in it. Fine. But did those absolutely need to be twice as loud as the rest of the movie, even the action scenes? Really obnoxious, bad mixing there.

But man what's with the children nowadays? I saw the trailer and there was absolutey nothing terrifying in this movie.

Raise children properly and not affraid of the litteelest things...

Should children, or teens, or adults be exposed to fantasy good vs. bad (unfortunately for young ones - a snowman) where good triumphs & evil bad is vanquished in some way? Well, it's been that way forever (at least since humans started telling tales in caves). So no surprise there. My low rating is due to the animation & voicing. Animation wasn't the worst nor was it amongst the best. Had some 3-D, but in mostly a single moving character with layered painted looking backdrops that were static (not moving). And both, central characters & background, lacked detail. Voicing was too human like. Characters were too stereotypical cute - dragon looked like a green puppy; princess looked like most female animé: thin, attractive, big eyes, long light hair, white, and very "Frozen" like. German & Chinese animators should catch up w/their neighbors.

Tabaluga was one of my favourite childhood tv shows, this atrocity ruined it. Just one look at the horrid animation, bad plot and abominations of characters is enough to give not only kids, but even adults nightmares. Do yourself a HUGE favor and don't watch.