Spellbound (2024)

Spellbound (2024)

2/10

 

Starring the voices of

Rachel Zegler

John Lithgow

Jenifer Lewis

Tituss Burgess

 

Directed by Vicky Jenson

 

This is a horrible animation. I do not even understand how they made this animation this way with such bad writing. The only intention that I can get from this production is that it will entertain no one except for children who will not understand what is going on, but like the colorfulness.

Which is very bad work on their part, when the whole idea of how this movie will play out is, “let us make it bright and sparkling, kids will be engulfed by that.” This animation is not meant to be viewed or liked by an adult, because I saw this movie and I felt like punching the TV.

It is the way the animation starts that gets me at first. I told myself, overlook the bad songs, and the very odd CGI, this idea of starting the movie, at the point of the parents being monsters and everyone must work around this to keep the populace in the dark seemed intriguing at first.

Then came the execution of this good idea. The distance between the people that know and the people that do not, and then the incidents which were meant to be funny, just fell by the wayside.

Then came the little girl who must deal with this, she got help from some oracle telling her that the parents are the only ones who can break the spell which has turned them into monsters.

How did the parents become monsters?

They went on a journey to the dark forest of eternal darkness (I do not know if the reason for this journey was justified, but the idea is they went), and it was there that they got turned into monsters.

It is worth saying here that, they are not monsters who know they are parents or aware that they are the king and queen of the land of Lumbria, more of monsters acting like pets.

So, the little girl Ellian (the princess of Lumbria) does not have the time to be a little girl anymore. She and the people who know, spend most of their time taking care of these large monsters.

The time is coming, and the people are getting impatient, so Ellian knows she must come up with a way to turn her parents back. That is when she summoned the oracle and is hit with the news that the parents must embark on a journey to the Lake of Light. It was while on this journey, the monsters got their voices back and had some level of reasoning returned to them.

What can I say, I have wasted time watching an animation this horrible.