Dragonkeeper Review – Animation Family Friendly Film Delivers Big Entertainment
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- Category: UK A&E, Lifestyle, Culture
- Published on Friday, 27 September 2024 10:25
- Written by Janet Walker
Dragonkeeper, from Vertigo Releasing, presents a captivating, animated adventure of finding your true destiny, as an orphan girl sentenced to a destiny of servanthood, is recused by the last surviving Dragon and given a destiny of greatness.
The film begins with an introduction to the story in voice over. We travel with the voice as he explains the story of the dragon wars. We see through the colorful pictures on the wall a story, that in ancient China after a clash with the humans, dragons were banished from the kingdom. After the dragon wars, a time of peace between man and dragons resulted in their revered status as honored guests.
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We then meet Master Lan, voiced by Tony Jayawardena, a businessman and mayor of a distant village, who is making a deal with the Great Lord who we can sense is dastardly and evil. Whatever Master Lan is selling its color is florescent blue and when the Great Lord pulls up his sleeves to test it, we see his arms have red splotches.
Once the deal is done, Master Lan hears a baby crying. This is when we see an old man, who looks like a mad scientist, abandoning a baby, and he whispers it is all up to you now. We later find out the man is Wang Chao, voiced by Bill Bailey, the assistant to the Great Lord.
Master Lan picks up the child, Ping, voiced by Mayalinee Griffiths, who we meet again many years later, living as the daughter to a servant, and as her mother was a servant, so she is destined to be also. On the day that they are supposed to feed the dragons, Ping's pet mouse, end up in the food, and as the basket empties into the dragon pit, she sees her pet fall also. Determined to retrieve him, she lowers herself into the pit and falls on the pile of food. She cuts her hand. The two dragons appear and with the same florescent blue chi, the dragon blows on the cut, and it is healed.
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When one of the dragons die, the Great Lord appears, with the Emperor's Army lead by a dutiful Captain to transport the last surviving dragon and take him to the emperor. Ping is a servant girl, she must serve the Great Lord, who we remember from the village. He sees an oddity in Ping and mentioned that he thought they had removed all the left-handed people. And once again, Ping's mouse jumps into the Great Lord's food. He catches him and begin to pour boiling water on him, when Ping unleashes the power that even she is not aware she possesses. The stone necklace she wears glows blue.
This sets up a desperate attempt by Ping and Danzi, voiced by Bill Nighy, to escape the Great Lord and the Captain. As the Great Lord, unleashes his arsenal of venomous spiders and Ping is bitten. She falls and he takes the Pearl of Eternal Life, the last known dragon egg, from her. The Great Lord challenges the dragon, who will he save, Ping or the egg?
As the dragon chooses Ping, he is injured by the captain, who rips a tear in his wing. Now, he and Ping are on a mission to rescue Ki, the dragon egg.
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As they begin their journey we understand, Ping, is a typical child, full of questions, no concept of time, and wants the lessons to be handed to her instead of learned. With Danzi as her guide and helper we understand, she is no longer bound to the past, to the dictates of those who would hold her down for their own gain. She was chosen. This journey leads to the finale where the ultimate battle of good verse evil is fought.
Dragonkeeper, a spellbinding, skillfully woven tale, is magnetic. The use of dynamic, vivid, and fluorescent colors adds to the captivating and well-told story, as does the appeal of the characters, and the distinctive use of voice tones to help establish the storyline.
Mesmerizing, charming, and engaging Dragonkeeper, an animated adventure film, opens September 27, 2024, across the UK and Ireland. See it.
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Country: UK.
Language: English.
Runtime: 98 minutes.
Release Date: September 27, 2024.
Director: Jianping Li, Salvador Simo,
Executive Producer: Larry Levene.
Writer: Carole Wilkinson, Pablo Castrillo, Ignacio Ferreras, Rosanna Checchini, Wang Xianping. Based on the first six young adult novels of the same name.
Cast: Bill Nighy, Mayalinee Griffiths, Anthony Howell, Bill Bailey, Mario Gas, Lucia Perez, Nano Castro, Tony Jayawardena, Paul McEwan, Andrew Leung, Felix Rosen.
