The battle between ducks and humans for the place under the sun.The battle between ducks and humans for the place under the sun.The battle between ducks and humans for the place under the sun.
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
- Duckmus
- (voice)
- Longway
- (voice)
- Kianga
- (voice)
- Emperor Peng Lee
- (voice)
- Dancer
- (voice)
- Shina
- (voice)
- Shina
- (voice)
- Margo
- (voice)
- (as Evelina Bledans)
- Erica
- (voice)
- Policeman
- (voice)
- Nanny
- (voice)
- Old Servant
- (voice)
- …
- Duane
- (voice)
- Duckmus
- (voice)
- (as Vsevolod Borisovitsj Koeznetsov)
- Nik
- (voice)
- Erica
- (voice)
- Penglee
- (voice)
- (as Natalja Podolskaja)
Featured reviews
The character portrayal also fails to reach the ideal state. Although the main characters and supporting characters each have their own unique features, none of them are fully developed. There is a lack of in - depth exploration.
The film still has potential, but there are many problems in all aspects of production and it needs a great deal of room for improvement.
First off, the plot and story is a bit questionable and weird at certain times of the film. The animation may be a bit awkward and weird at certain points in the film but there are movies that are worse when it comes to the animation in Quackerz. However, the movie does have very impressive visuals which overwhelm the view with its richness in colour and vibrancy. Almost all scenes are very colourful.
For parents - I would recommend this movie for your children who are around 7 and up, as there is some violence in the ending of the movie.
There are certainly far worse animated films out there than 'Quackerz', as strange a film it is it actually looks like effort was put into it and not an amateurish hack job. It is however sadly a case of an interesting concept executed weirdly and blandly. There are good points certainly. Apart from the mediocre work on the humans, the animation is very good. Very vibrant in colour with colours that leap out of the screen and rich and meticulous in detail.
While not exactly incredible, the voice cast (that doesn't rely on celebrity voices and didn't need to) do bring energy and soul to their roles. The soundtrack is infectiously peppy. There are a few amusing jokes and the sparring leaders and dim-witted thieves provide a little entertainment value.
Most successful is the romance between Erica and Longway. That had wit and heart and the characters have chemistry and are likable and confident, regardless of it being a very familiar story trope.
However, 'Quackerz' is a very strange film. Not just in the bizarrely confusing mishmash of accents that make what seemed to be a very clear setting initially increasingly more ambiguous. But also in elements like the steam-punk style that seems to be there for no reason and the gramophone/duck break dance scene that come over as out of place, bizarre and takes one out of the film.
Although the writing has its moments, a lot of it is awkward and some of it is culturally insensitive in a way that's not for the easily offended. It often sounded like a very clumsy attempt to appeal to international audiences. The story execution underwhelms outside of the romance. It has too many familiar elements done with little freshness and its most original element, the legend of the sun duck plot, is under-cooked and may confuse younger audiences. The ending is rushed. There are a few nice lessons and values but they're lost amidst the strong aroma of strangeness.
Characters-wise, while Erica and Longway are likable and the thieves and leaders have some entertainment value, the others are a mix of bland and annoying. The villain is a very superficial one who isn't particularly entertaining or memorable let alone menacing. As mentioned, the human character animation is mediocre at best.
In summary, okay but completely quackers (admittedly very bad pun intended). 4/10 Bethany Cox
I advise you to watch this good cartoon.
Models are qualitatively worked out - hair to hair, feather to feather, super animation.
Great entertaining cartoon for kids and their parents.
Now that i got that out of the way let me tell you about this horribly produced "movie"
While the animation may seem good, it isn't, it just all over the place, it's tedious. The plot is just non-sense, the characters just spit out lines because the script says so.
The characters are... well, generic? I want to think that because the movie just changes the motivation for a character really quick, there is little to none character development.
The movie cuts from a scene to another one that has nothing to do with the previous one so it makes the movie confusing as hell.
Please, don't watch this horrible movie and waste an hour and twenty minutes of your time just like I did.
Don't know how people can like this, kids deserve to watch better movies, not this kind of crap.
Did you know
- TriviaThe cartoon was the first animation project in which the Chinese holding Star Alliance Media invested.
- Quotes
Erica: What happened to the lake?
Longway: Hey! I just made a hole with my head that was so big, I drained the lake! Oh, no. My dad lectured me for hours about this.
Erica: Uh, you know, we...
Longway: All that junk about responsibility.
Erica: We could fly off this boring island and see the real world, together.
Longway: Huh? Fly off... together? Sounds amazing!
[flies up, then falls back down]
Longway: But I shouldn't leave my dad when there's all this trouble with the mal...
Erica: With the mallards? Two seconds ago you said you hated responsibility. So either you don't like mallards, or you're just a quack-job coward. Mmph!
Longway: Erica, wait! I didn't mean to...
Erica: Quack off!
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Cinema Snob: Mobsters and Mormons (2018)
- SoundtracksMisery Agrees With Me
Written by Michèle Vice-Maslin, Larry Treadwell and Jessica Frith
Produced and Arranged by Michèle Vice-Maslin
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- $5,200,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $4,828,042
- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1 / (high definition)