TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

doug-915-747467 I've watched this a couple times with the 3-yo and the 7-yo. We all like it. The kids have a low filter for engaging with an animated movie, but they lean in on this one like they do for good Ghibli movies.It is exciting but not crushingly scary; it interesting and creative, making good use of the opportunity to invent an imaginary world; fascinating and moody; it has obvious value lessons that the 7-yo expects to be in her movies, but also with a little twisting that she doesn't expect and needs to talk about; the ending seems a little abrupt, but perhaps that was the copy of that we were watching. I am over-voting it, but the current IMDb rating of ~6 is absurd.

violinisthamel (may have slight spoilers) The only reason this has a 3 is because the graphics are good. The story is very simple, the characters lack development and aren't interesting enough to care about them, most of the scenes don't make sense to what the "story" is striving at and flash backs/supposed sad moments lack the feeling because of how lacking the characters are. The Music is good and definitely puts you into the mood of the scene but because there are no feelings for the characters, it destroys it. What really bothers me about this movie is the lack of any information. The world seems like it could be interesting but there is no explanation for why it is the way that it is and really such a shame. Desolate and broken is understandable but the lack of gravity and why the world is broken seems to have gone completely untold.

zoezuniga Although the story line was simple I felt that it was appropriate for this children's film. The beauty and rhythm of the movement and backgrounds, the expressions on the characters faces, the gestures and poses and postures of the bodies, all the details were enough to captivate me for the entire length of the film. Since the film is of European origin it is understandable that some US viewers might find it too simplistic without complex plot twists or escalating violence, etc. Sadly a lot of American viewers just won't "get" this film or appreciate it after a diet of American movies which have little of the subtly of French films.But I was not the least bit bored. I found the nuance made up for any lack of "action". It had a beautiful zen quality that was restful, dreamy and entertaining all at once.The brief snippets of background material about the main warrior and his childhood were poignant and effective in rounding out the story. I found it refreshing to have the story line fairly straight forward and the wealth of visual detail made up for the simplicity and the few characters in this amazing grand floating world.It reminded me of the French Classic version of Beauty and the Beast from 1946 by Jean Cocteau. in that mood and nuance was so beautifully created that there was no need for complexity or a lot of clever dialog. This is also a timeless work of art with a lot of amazing art and animation and research to create the visuals.This is a film that animation buffs and fairytale buffs will want to watch again and again... It was the kind of movie that made you want more, and wish you could stay in this world forever.It would certainly be nice to see this wonderful world revisited in another film about the same environment and find out what the characters did after the end of this film.

chuck-526 The almost entirely 3D animation is some of the most imaginative, detailed, and careful that I've ever seen (I'm writing in 2010). The level of entirely believable detail is like taking the most complicated frame from something like Wall-E or Ponyo by the Sea and equaling or besting it in scene after scene throughout the film. The story is a modified "fantasy action adventure", which may seem excellent, or just adequate, depending on your predilection about that genre. (If you have your doubts about the genre, you'll find the usual suspects here: plot loose ends, exaggerated characters, not entirely believable motivations, an awful lot of coincidences, and so forth. If though you just let go with the flow, it will be a rollicking good time.) The characters are pretty much straight ahead (a lot of sly character humor has made its way into the TV series though).It's a bit confusing to find the right thing, as there are two movies, a TV series, and a comic book series all with pretty much the same name (maybe differing only in an 's' or a '!', and even that not consistently). One of the movies is a Korean live action movie, and the comic book series is also Korean. The other movie is an animation and had mostly French involvement, and the TV series is a spin off of the movie (or is the movie a spin off of the TV series?) with the same characters, locale, and back-stories. While the TV series is one of the best animated serials I've seen, with unusual characters that are funny in a very modern understated ironic way, and animation much much more careful and detailed than you'd expect from a TV series; it's this animated movie (original title "Chasseurs de Dragons" by the French company "Futurikon") that's the most outstanding of the bunch.If this movie is what you're looking for and you accidentally get the TV series instead, it's worth watching anyway. But afterward try again to get this movie. If on the other hand you accidentally get the live action movie, your expectations will be disappointed. I believe the voice actors in this movie and in the TV series are different (both good, just "different"). And of course the appearance of the characters is more complex and subtle in this movie. The Region 1 DVD doesn't have either any subtitles or any choice of spoken language; spoken English is all you get without obtaining a different DVD. This will generally be just fine, as the English sound track has no "accent" at all and is so good you won't puzzle over anything.