My four and two year old absolutely love it 5th time watching it. Nothing depressing about it my children understand what is going on with evil snowman octo and sweet little tabaluga.
Plot summary
Long time ago, there was two frontier magical kingdoms named Greenland, whose inhabitants live in an eternal summer, and Iceland, whose inhabitants live in an eternal winter. Protected by dragons, both kingdoms lived quiet and happy until the day that an evil wizard named Arktos killed all dragons but two, Tyrion and Mythia, that fled to arrive at the border of Greenland for saving the egg of their unborn baby Tabaluga before Arktos finally kill them. But before to die, Mythia meets the old crow Kolk, who promises Mythia to care the dragon and protect from Iceland and Arktos. A few years later, Tabaluga is a young dragon unable to fly and spit fire, for mock of the rest of the Greenland's animals. Always with his friend the male ladybug Bully at his side, one day Tabaluga and Bully find in a rock a message of his mother but the dragon misunderstands it due that it's partially covered. Entering in Iceland to find his fire, Tabaluga meets beauty ice princess Lilli and her friend the lighthearted polar bear Limbo. Not knowing the happened years before, Lilli takes Tabaluga to meet Arktos, now turned in Iceland's king. Pretending to be friendly, Arktos takes Tabaluga to a secret room in the belief that there he will find his fire, but when Arktos (a living snowman to wants to conquer Greeland to summit everything in an eternal winter) tries to finish the work and kill Tabaluga, Lilli, Bully and Limbo join forces to save him, having to find the way to save too Greenland before Arktos freezes it.
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Sweet and entertaining, but a little out of date animation
A very nice, modern film adaptation of the German classic. Sometimes a bit scary for the younger audience under six years of age, but with the parents by the side it is certainly a wonderful experience. The only point of criticism may be that the animation is really out of date.
Animation Brought It Down
Should children, or teens, or adults be exposed to fantasy good vs. bad (unfortunately for young ones - a snowman) where good triumphs & evil bad is vanquished in some way? Well, it's been that way forever (at least since humans started telling tales in caves). So no surprise there. My low rating is due to the animation & voicing. Animation wasn't the worst nor was it amongst the best. Had some 3-D, but in mostly a single moving character with layered painted looking backdrops that were static (not moving). And both, central characters & background, lacked detail. Voicing was too human like. Characters were too stereotypical cute - dragon looked like a green puppy; princess looked like most female animé: thin, attractive, big eyes, long light hair, white, and very "Frozen" like. German & Chinese animators should catch up w/their neighbors.