Sekai Meisaku Douwa: Hakuchou no Ouji
The Wild Swans
世界名作童話 白鳥の王子
When a widower king loses his way in a dangerous forest, he is forced to take a witch's daughter as a second wife in order to escape. However, the newly crowned queen Greta quickly becomes jealous of the time the king spends with his children and vows her revenge. In the middle of the night, Greta sneaks to where the children are sleeping and turns six of the king's sons into swans, leaving the only daughter, Elisa, to fend for herself. Elisa travels far and wide in the search for her brothers and finds them living in a remote cave. While she rejoices at their reunion, she sees how terribly the curse has affected her brothers and promises to set them free at any cost. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Synopsis
When a widower king loses his way in a dangerous forest, he is forced to take a witch's daughter as a second wife in order to escape. However, the newly crowned queen Greta quickly becomes jealous of the time the king spends with his children and vows her revenge. In the middle of the night, Greta sneaks to where the children are sleeping and turns six of the king's sons into swans, leaving the only daughter, Elisa, to fend for herself. Elisa travels far and wide in the search for her brothers and finds them living in a remote cave. While she rejoices at their reunion, she sees how terribly the curse has affected her brothers and promises to set them free at any cost. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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Reviews(3)
Shi-rho
June 4, 2016
Everything you need to know about this movie is that its execution was really, really bad. It felt like a Disney movie that was scrapped while they were still working on it and then pawned off to Toei for a few bucks. Some positive thoughts: There were a lot of "What the fuck?!" moments in it, and it was so bad that I laughed a lot while watching it - simply because it was too bad to be true But let's go a tiny little bit more into detail: The story was really jumpy most of the time and forgot to explain a lot of things happening. Thepacing was horrible - and at a lot of points in the story, the movie just repeated a completely pointless scene over and over, just to be a few minutes longer. There is really nothing good that can be said about the art, it was pretty bad even for the standards back when it was produced. And the sound was just horrible and at most parts of the movie didn't fit at all to what was happening on screen. About the characters? Well, they were all pretty stupid, and felt pointless. In fact: the entire story did. There is no real lessen to be learnt, or anything positive for children at all, so I don't know why this was produced. For Disney movies (yes, this definitely feels like one), there was at least a lesson to be learnt, most of the time.
