A good movie

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this movie and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. Basically, after going through a rather dark period, Don Bluth finally managed to make a come-back with this movie which would be his last critical and commercial success. Of course, you could argue that Bluth basically copied the standard template used by Disney in many fairy tales but he did it very well and the end-result was really quite entertaining to behold. Indeed, they chose a really strong tale, actually based on some famous historical events, and they gave it a fairy tale interpretation which worked very well. Concerning the characters, they were rather stereotypical but I thought they worked pretty well, even Rasputin was actually pretty cool as the bad guy but his sidekick Bartok was too much over the top for me. Following this success, Don Bluth would release one last directing effort, the even more ambitious ‘Titan A.E.’, but it would be another flop for Bluth and it would pretty much end his directing career which was too bad. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, to conclude, even though it was maybe not a masterpiece, I thought it was still a decent animated feature and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.