Friday, March 8, 2019

Azur & Asmar (2006)


Gkids
Directed by Michel Ocelot
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Genius Products)

Two children, one the son of a nobleman and the other of their servant, are raised as brothers despite their differences in social standing and skin color. They are separated by the nobleman when they grow older, with his son sent off to school in another city and the servant fired. The two brothers meet again in the city. They share a quest to find the "Djinn fairy" they were told about in their youth and marry her. They overcome their differences and set off together. They pass a series of traps and find the fairy, but she is only willing to marry one of them, but not sure of which. They eventually work it out. Animated fairy tale is a change of pace. It has colorful, often beautiful, backgrounds inspired by Persian art, but the animation of the humans leaves much to be desired. 

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