What we have here is a French film. On that point: it's set in the American Old West. It felt like watching every stereotypical film, or reading a fictional book about the West during the late 19th Century. If the filmmakers did research it was probably on their own stereotypes of Americans, I could be wrong. If there is supposed to be humor in this, I missed it. The only scene that may have come close is the one in the beginning where the train is being robbed, and the "Prince" effortlessly foils the bandit by lighting one of his dynamite strapped to his belt. It was ridiculous.
This is very loosely based on the Cinderella story; and of what there is of "Cinderella" seems to be a minor side story to the overall greed of everyone else.
Also, in this Cinderella she doesn't lose a glass slipper but a tooth. Yes! a tooth. Something else ridiculous: the use of Tommy guns. The Gatling gun is period, but not the Tommy gun.
And the ending where Cinderella and the Prince are on the ship, they're just standing there and miraculously they are saved before the explosion. Yet it didn't show how at the last second the bird came down and rescued them, a huge gigantic bird. Some things should be left to the imagination except things that are just ridiculous. I know it's a children's animated film but it's not like the setting is in Neverland, or anything: it's the Old West--with pirates!
The animation is average for the computer generated films one may be used to. It's not Pixar quality. And that's fine. But the dialogue should at least be well enough to keep one's attention, none in this film seems to have kept mine. It started out okay, and just dwindled from there.
I'm giving this a 4/10 for effort, and though the animation is average there are some scenes that are quite well done.
This is a film that one watches when they are bored or with a very young child, like a 5 year old.
This is very loosely based on the Cinderella story; and of what there is of "Cinderella" seems to be a minor side story to the overall greed of everyone else.
Also, in this Cinderella she doesn't lose a glass slipper but a tooth. Yes! a tooth. Something else ridiculous: the use of Tommy guns. The Gatling gun is period, but not the Tommy gun.
And the ending where Cinderella and the Prince are on the ship, they're just standing there and miraculously they are saved before the explosion. Yet it didn't show how at the last second the bird came down and rescued them, a huge gigantic bird. Some things should be left to the imagination except things that are just ridiculous. I know it's a children's animated film but it's not like the setting is in Neverland, or anything: it's the Old West--with pirates!
The animation is average for the computer generated films one may be used to. It's not Pixar quality. And that's fine. But the dialogue should at least be well enough to keep one's attention, none in this film seems to have kept mine. It started out okay, and just dwindled from there.
I'm giving this a 4/10 for effort, and though the animation is average there are some scenes that are quite well done.
This is a film that one watches when they are bored or with a very young child, like a 5 year old.
