Pas une critique!

Vu en français en salle, avant-première "jeune public".

A popup book-like film with a mediocre story (let's say decent for very young kids), excuse for good looking pictures in a 3D/2D ornamental style (even though they were often ugly to me). Nothing is breathtaking but 99% of it looks pretty good.
While the film often recalls the old semi-top view videogames (ex: Zelda), the flat perpendicular view of the city in the horizon always felt weird.

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- constant and convenient additions and tweaks of "rules" (it's magic ;) )*,
- a totally unwelcomed pop song that felt more alien than the usual pop song elliptic montage in other films,
- CGI figures clearly stand out too much as soon as the camera is far away,
- the now steady figure of the active heroine that won't accept "female tasks" in the old times and other examples of the current obsessive need for so-called "progressive" illustrations. At least, it doesn't stifle the film but is merely annoying.
- etc.

Also, I might have seen it coming from the minute we were presented the four characters but did it really have to become a family?

Since it was for a young audience, the preview was dubbed, but I guess the accents were present in the original track, to make the context of english people taking over irish lands clearer. (The french dub failed to present the locals as irish people on the contrary, only going with ramblings about the "english invader", something certainly not speaking at all to the young audience.)

Score: 7,5/10
Enjoyment: 4/5

• Just how did the father suddenly fall asleep on his own will to do the astral wolf thing and fight??