A good movie

At the end of the 70’s, Don Bluth decided to leave Disney and, right away, he went to direct his own animated features. In the 80’s, he had some major success with ‘The Secret of NIMH’ and, above all, with ‘An American Tail’ and ‘The Land Before Time’. Unfortunately, after those movies, he kept making some underperforming features. He did make a slight come-back with ‘Anastasia’ at the end of the 90’s but this movie was a huge box-office flop and it pretty much ended his career which is a terrible shame. Since I always had a weak spot for Don Bluth’s work, I was really eager to check it out and, eventually, I thought it was actually pretty good. Indeed, as usual with Bluth, the animation was really nice but, I guess, with the rise of the CGI animation at the time, the audience didn’t care much for something like this. On top of that, I thought that the story was also fairly entertaining even if it was rather pedestrian and nothing really mind-blowing. To conclude, I think it is actually a decent SF animated feature and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10