2012 · animation · family · fantasy
The Legend of Mor'du
Directed by Brian Larsen6m2012
The witch from Pixar's Brave uses magical illustrations to tell the legend of a power-obsessed prince who sought a magic spell that would allow him to wrest control of a kingdom from his brothers, only to destroy that kingdom and his own fate as well.
Our read: The Legend of Mor'du (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive animation · family · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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