This is not the average Shrek – Fiona or beauty and the
beast story where you would expect something magical to happen towards the end
of the movie and then suddenly the beast turns into beauty, vice versa or the
frog becomes a prince after a kiss of love.
The story was written by George Lucas and directed by Gary
Rydstrom and released under Lucas film in January, 23rd, 2015. It
was inspired by Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The setting was arranged
in a forest that houses two separate worlds, the fairy kingdoms, which houses
the elves and fairies, and the dark forest, a home for ugly and disgusting
creatures. And though they were close neighbours, they shared nothing in common
except for the magical love roses that grew at the boundaries that divided them;
the flowers responsible for producing love spells.
George however got us awe struck with an unexpected twist
when one of the beautiful fairy princesses, Dawn, fell in love with an Elf named
Sunny, to the chagrin of her father the fairy king. And as if that was not
enough the second princess, Marianne, also fell permanently for the ugly looking
bog king of the dark forest, that had initially kidnapped her little sister and
she went on a mission to rescue her. It was a twist that no one ever saw coming
as one would have expected that Marianne would end up with the more handsome Ronald,
who incidentally was also in love with another fairy.
However, all hell was let loose when the princess caught her
groom, Ronald, kissing another fairy in the forest on their wedding day.
Immediately, she cuts off the wedding to live a more liberal lifestyle and all
attempts for Ronald to woo back the princess failed, so he decided to get himself
the magic love portion from the dark forest in order for it to make her to fall
in love with him once again; so that he could became the next king.
The movie ended up with unusual unions between dissimilar
creatures and this gets me thinking that that is really strange, maybe the
reason for the title. George’s creative geniuses defy all pre-existing
conventions in animated movies, and despite all the criticisms, I think I love
it. After all it is all about finding love in strange places. Somehow, I still
expect a sequel to the first part, maybe just to tidy up some obscure parts,
like Ronald kissing a bog at the end, how long would the love last before he
and some others come to their senses.
It’s a nice and simple story with beautiful animation. However, some of the choices of songs were way
too old for some of the present generations to relate with, but I still think
both the directors and animators did their bests to do justices to them. But
Sunny’s (Elijah Kelly) and Dawn’s (Meredith Anne Bull) rendition of Bob
Marley’s ‘Three little birds’, was my favourite. It was the bomb!
By Flinger Nose Correspondent (FNC)
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