Forgive me for not knowing more about Delgo, but here's the thing: I cannot even look at the creatures in it without having a violent urge to: change the channel, close the web browser, or run screaming from the room. I don't know what it is, but they are just the right kind of human/weird dinosaur hybrid to completely creep me out. It's been hard for me to read about or watch trailers for a movie that causes me to automatically retreat. And, seriously, what is this movie? Oh, right, the website has a synopsis: " In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing race to stop a war orchestrated by a power-hungry villain." Um, okay? I guess?
Despite my aversion, I watched the trailer. And that little Behind the Scenes gadget on the movie's site -- in which Freddie Prinze Jr., Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Ripa, Val Kilmer, and various other people whose advice I don't care to take tell me I MUST watch this movie. Yeah, not making me want to watch anymore. (We do learn in this featurette that the characters are sort of based on the people voicing them, which explains why they're so creepily human, I guess.) The trailer looks like they just wanted to show off their old-fashioned, shiny animation, but didn't know quite what to do, story-wise. So they crossed Jar Jar Binks (but, like, a whole bunch of Jar Jars, which ... no) with a little girl's fairy princess movie. And then they try to throw in the tiniest bit of humor to please the Shrek crowd. It's like nothing you've ever imagined. And that is not a good thing.
Reviews By People Who've Actually Seen It:
Entertainment Weekly
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Reviews By People Who've Actually Seen It:
Entertainment Weekly
Rotten Tomatoes
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