Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Too much of everything

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

First time I saw this movie I was fascinated and have since watched it again and again. The storyline is one someone should have done years ago. The characters are only enough to tell the story. The time is instead spent developing the characters and setting up for the huge finish.The visually stunning world floating around is fascinating all by itself. The unique graphics to make a gravity defying universe must have been a huge effort. This is a different world than any you've seen. Who ever wrote the screen play really believed in the story to fill it out like they did, down to the little puffing plants. The people are not the best graphics but are a very characterized style which manage to be amusing particularly in motion.Fold in good characters, well developed by the end of the movie (the dog is awesome funny) new monsters and by the end you're totally rooting for the underdogs in the face of an unbelievable foe.Love it. Will always be one of my favorites and probably the biggest surprise hit to me of animation ever.

We rented the movie on a lark while on vacation at the beach and were dumbfounded that we did not know about it sooner. The animation is truly gorgeous and very surreal. The use of what seemed like real film footage with animation was very well done and added to the believability of the other-worldliness. The story is a very fun play on good and evil, stereotypes/misconceptions, and if you have a daughter(s) there is a little girl-power subtext going on. I loved the knitting references. It has become one of my family's favorite movies and we are waiting to do an outdoor movie night to see how it plays in the open. I imagine it will be stunning.

The almost entirely 3D animation is some of the most imaginative, detailed, and careful that I've ever seen (I'm writing in 2010). The level of entirely believable detail is like taking the most complicated frame from something like Wall-E or Ponyo by the Sea and equaling or besting it in scene after scene throughout the film. The story is a modified "fantasy action adventure", which may seem excellent, or just adequate, depending on your predilection about that genre. (If you have your doubts about the genre, you'll find the usual suspects here: plot loose ends, exaggerated characters, not entirely believable motivations, an awful lot of coincidences, and so forth. If though you just let go with the flow, it will be a rollicking good time.) The characters are pretty much straight ahead (a lot of sly character humor has made its way into the TV series though).It's a bit confusing to find the right thing, as there are two movies, a TV series, and a comic book series all with pretty much the same name (maybe differing only in an 's' or a '!', and even that not consistently). One of the movies is a Korean live action movie, and the comic book series is also Korean. The other movie is an animation and had mostly French involvement, and the TV series is a spin off of the movie (or is the movie a spin off of the TV series?) with the same characters, locale, and back-stories. While the TV series is one of the best animated serials I've seen, with unusual characters that are funny in a very modern understated ironic way, and animation much much more careful and detailed than you'd expect from a TV series; it's this animated movie (original title "Chasseurs de Dragons" by the French company "Futurikon") that's the most outstanding of the bunch.If this movie is what you're looking for and you accidentally get the TV series instead, it's worth watching anyway. But afterward try again to get this movie. If on the other hand you accidentally get the live action movie, your expectations will be disappointed. I believe the voice actors in this movie and in the TV series are different (both good, just "different"). And of course the appearance of the characters is more complex and subtle in this movie. The Region 1 DVD doesn't have either any subtitles or any choice of spoken language; spoken English is all you get without obtaining a different DVD. This will generally be just fine, as the English sound track has no "accent" at all and is so good you won't puzzle over anything.

What people fail to understand about this movie is that it isn't a beginning, middle, and end, it is just the conclusion of a 26 episode long TV series. So remember that when you all talk about how the world wasn't explored enough. That was all done in the TV show.As great and stunning as the visuals are, I think the ***SPOILERS*** argument between Lian-Chu and Gwizdo near the end of the film was what really made me love this movie. Seeing characters I had followed through 26 episodes fight like that was agonizing, and seeing Gwizdo walking sadly off by himself amidst the floating ruins while Lian-Chu sharpened his blade was almost tear-jerking. Then we got a total contrast with Lian-Chu fighting these insanely awesome dragons (Which had been featured before in the series) while Gwizdo is babbling insanely and indirectly threatening to kill Zoe. *Shudder* I'm surprised that this particular scene hasn't been mentioned more in the warnings. Any kid that has a lick of sense will be able to see that Gwizdo wasn't himself and was fully intent on strangling that little girl. It was enough to bother me, and I'm 15.The world is amazing, the plot is a lot better than most multi-million blockbusters, and it was a nice way to see some of my favorite characters go. Check it out. :)