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Consensus: Delgo features a blend of plot elements from earlier (and superior) fantasy films, with weaker animation and dull characters.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: With its feature DELGO, Fathom Studios is looking to be the indie answer to Pixar. Blending a Tolkien-like mythos and an eastern philosophy with a heaping dose of wit, DELGO is a kid-friendly tale... [More]
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Chris Kattan
Director: Jason Maurer, Marc F. Adler
There isn't enough action for older children, or silly humor for younger ones; even at an hour-and-a-half, the film feels padded, and it's going to feel even slower to audiences amped up on blood-red Icees and molar-cracking Nonpareils.
A few magic rocks and tepid battle scenes do little to inspire interest in the goings-on as Malcolm McDowell and Eric Idle spout villainy and punch lines, respectively.
Little in the movie makes sense, the humour is forced and overall, it's sometimes boring.
Delgo demonstrates how hard it is to create a memorable, credible-looking piece of animated entertainment.
Admirable attempt at independent feature animation is undercut by videogame-quality CGI, cardboard characters and a bludgeoningly allegorical, unimaginative story of tribal conflict and teenagers in love.
Parental Content Review
It's a good thing I just bought the Wall-E DVD, because I'm gonna need to watch it at least a dozen times to scrub the horrors of Delgo out of my brain.
The look has impressive flair and attention to detail. Its biggest weakness is too many characters, too many plot diversions, and too much violence for very young children.
Top Critica lot like watching your computer's graphics card vomit.
In a season soon to be filled with better-made family movies based on better-known material, the movie's serviceable-enough animation isn't likely to help it stand out.
The story is a mishmash of adventure-fantasy tropes.
Top CriticCharacters are stiff; there is little variety in movement. It's a cheapo product ideally suited for a Saturday-morning pyjama vigil in front of a small screen.
Better than a lot of animated features released in the past few months.
A boring, ungainly piece of animation.
Top CriticAfter watching this offering of CG-animated fantasy fluff, I'm curious as to why it took so long to assemble what comes off as a routine family film experience; a film of almost dogged mediocrity.
A high-tech animation adventure with a top-flight voice cast and a well-told if familiar fable about power, peace and people getting it together.
Apparently it took six screenwriters to come up with a screenplay lacking a single good idea.
The animation's not bad. But the staggeringly complicated Tolkien-C.S. Lewis setting, the reptilian leads and the faded fairy-tale plot skewer poor Delgo before we have a chance to figure out what's going on here and why.
The animation is well done, but the story meanders between kid-pleasing slapstick and more serious good-vs.-evil fare.
While it's not aggressively bad, it is vapid and unimaginative, the type of thing you'd let the kids watch on TV for free, not in theaters for an arm and a leg.
December 21, 2008:
Delgo Disappears from Theaters 
Supplanting Katherine Heigl's "Zzyzx" as the most embarrassing theatrical debut of the year, "Delgo" has taken exactly a week to go from 2,100 screens to none. Yes, none. More...
December 11, 2008:
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December 11, 2008:
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October 29, 2008:
One word: unpromising.
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