1988 · fantasy · adventure · sword-and-sorcery
Willow
Directed by Ron Howard2h 6m1988
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
Our read: Willow (1988) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · adventure · sword-and-sorcery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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