Movie: Strange Magic

[thewayne]

This just released this weekend, it's an animated film from Lucasfilm produced by Georgie boy himself. The director said the story is based on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and also on the movie Labyrinth, featuring a girl going in to enemy territory to rescue a sibling.

It was pretty good. The thing that the trailer didn't show, and I think I've only seen one, is that there's a lot of musical numbers in it. I'm talking animated characters doing song and dance numbers to rock music. I'm not sure how recent some of the music is as I didn't recognize it, but I did recognize an instrumental version of The Doors' When You're Strange, there's Elvis, Queen, and obviously Electric Light Orchestra's title song.

Lots of fun, definitely recommended.

[edit to add] And it has a left-handed swordsman in it! I didn't notice if he was consistently a lefty, but still....

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Ah! Very pleased to hear it's lived up to its earlier promise. Certainly, the visual style looked remarkably lush, and for once, not a Pixar retread.

It's actually something of a musical? Mm, I don't think that'll serve to deter me in the least. ^_^ Mostly known tracks, though, rather than original works?

FWIW, Lucasfilm might still have a very nifty short up on their site, literally "Work in Progress" - well worth viewing. And some choice voice acting.. !