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As I just told Kevin...

  • Jan. 15th, 2007 at 10:36 PM
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Arthur and the Invisibles: "Story was weak and rushed, comedy was decent (one scene above all others), design was impressive, Bowie was AWWWESOME"

It was, especially the love story, cute albeit hindered by the rushing; it left little time for character development so friendships and feelings grew way too fast. I enjoyed it, admittedly, just nothing blew me away. But let's talk about what matters to me:
The design of the inhabitants of the Seven Kingdoms was a little cliche (classical elvish(orc-ish)/sprite-ish work, the style teetering between some Jax and Daxter, some Code Lyoko[sic?], some Fifth Element for good measure) but this kind of creature work is still my weakness. The different Minimoys all intermingled (interbred, even, I think >_>) so it was hard to differentiate sometimes but there were several distinct subspecies and I had fun picking them out. I would absolutely love an artbook/bestiary for this series breaking them all down, who belongs in which Kingdom, etc. but so far the best I can find is Besson's orginal children's books (which I'm about to order anyways). Hopefully it'll have some information that I can snack on, and maybe if it gets the trilogy treatment some new material'll show up.
In the meantime I can just rub my Spiderwick field guide and Tolkien bestiary together like a couple of dolls making out. That should be close enough.

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