In fact, it looks better than Ocelot's most recent film, which just hit theatres. That is, it's a CGI film, but it's animated in such a way that it looks traditional. It's that 2.5D stuff that I've been seeing more and more of. The animation isn't as good as the character design. Ariadne is appropriately sexy (and Cottin is turning in a good performance I just wish her voice wasn't so recognizable). Minos wears a crown that makes it look like two bull horns are protruding from his head-not a terribly subtle bit of symbolism, but a nice touch, nevertheless. I hate that he apparently doesn't have a mouth (he communicates psychically with Icarus). The fight between him and Theseus-what looks like pencil drawings in an entirely dark environment-is particularly great. He looks impressive, both as a child and then when he has grown to grotesque proportions. I must say this: The design of Asterion is awesome. They become friends, but it soon becomes apparent that Asterion, much-beloved to his mother, is being raised by Minos for a more nefarious purpose. Icarus meets Asterion during a stay in Knossos while his father and Minos discuss how to punish the defeated Athenians. So we have here the rehabilitated Minotaur-Asterion (his actual "human" name in the myths I was very impressed by this "deep cut"). Of course, in a revisionist tale, the message is going to be "Men are the real monsters!" Conversely, the monster is going to be sympathetic. I find their characterization far less perplexing than the other choices. Minos and Theseus are villainous representatives of the patriarchy, and the original myths, read through a modern lens, completely invite that reading. She is voiced by the Parisian Bitch herself, Camille Cottin. Most curiously, Pasiphae is depicted completely sympathetically Daedalus is portrayed antagonistically (like many animated single parents) and Ariadne is a vamp. In this case, we have a version of the story of Theseus and the Minotaur that is relatively faithful to the actions of individuals in the myth but switches around their motivations. It is a revisionist take on a classical myth, something that has a tendency to tick me off but isn't inherently bad (I am well-disposed to Grendel Grendel Grendel, for example). I jumped on it the second it came to streaming. Icarus slipped through my fingers earlier this year when it was playing in French cinemas.
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