There are two lands. A land of light and a land of night. A land with folks who are in love and a land with folks who are trying to avoid it. In between the two lands are the flowers that make you feel in love, but not in true love. Those flowers are destroyed by those who live in the dark land and mostly ignored, except for the purposes of plot, by those who live in the light.
Regardless of which land you hail from you will have a singer in your midst. He or she will sing pop tunes remixed to fit the mood of the moment or to generally get an unclear point across. The singing does not seem to come from the heart in either case, but that may be because the animation struggles to embrace the singing; we may need some love potion for the two.
A preening bad guy comes to light in the land of the light. He seeks power through infatuation and generally mucks up him life, but he is CGI hot and our heroine-like character is in love until she sees him kissing another fairy. This kiss drives off all possibility for future romance clearly setting the stage for unimaginable future romance.
A bad guy who made some wrong choices rules the dark with his telephone-line inept hench-biologicals. He also has a mother who is trying to set him up. I wonder when he will fall in love.
Somewhere in the middle is a troll - you know the gnome-like ones with the funny hair. This troll is in a love that is not reciprocated. He needs some love potion ASAP, but he needs a jerk to convince him that this is the right thing. Where will he find a jerk? At a dance? Yes.
From there is all comes together exactly as we expect it to. A love- potion is sought and imbued with meaning by a character randomly names the sugar-plum fairy who escapes, but is easily caught. The troll-gnome ineptly applies the love-potion during an abduction. Valiant rescues are attempted and CGIed into mere rescues. Passion is flogged into heady titillation and the pain of misunderstanding finds a way to a kaleidoscopic finale.
The only thing left to wonder is how much LucasFilms Ltd. lost on this project.
Regardless of which land you hail from you will have a singer in your midst. He or she will sing pop tunes remixed to fit the mood of the moment or to generally get an unclear point across. The singing does not seem to come from the heart in either case, but that may be because the animation struggles to embrace the singing; we may need some love potion for the two.
A preening bad guy comes to light in the land of the light. He seeks power through infatuation and generally mucks up him life, but he is CGI hot and our heroine-like character is in love until she sees him kissing another fairy. This kiss drives off all possibility for future romance clearly setting the stage for unimaginable future romance.
A bad guy who made some wrong choices rules the dark with his telephone-line inept hench-biologicals. He also has a mother who is trying to set him up. I wonder when he will fall in love.
Somewhere in the middle is a troll - you know the gnome-like ones with the funny hair. This troll is in a love that is not reciprocated. He needs some love potion ASAP, but he needs a jerk to convince him that this is the right thing. Where will he find a jerk? At a dance? Yes.
From there is all comes together exactly as we expect it to. A love- potion is sought and imbued with meaning by a character randomly names the sugar-plum fairy who escapes, but is easily caught. The troll-gnome ineptly applies the love-potion during an abduction. Valiant rescues are attempted and CGIed into mere rescues. Passion is flogged into heady titillation and the pain of misunderstanding finds a way to a kaleidoscopic finale.
The only thing left to wonder is how much LucasFilms Ltd. lost on this project.