It's a great package: salutary, short (74 minutes) and sweet.
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02/09/06
Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:23
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Kirikou and the Sorceress is a beautifully uplifting throwback to a simpler animated era, with refreshingly unique art and a timeless soundtrack.
Runtime: 74 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: The exceptional powers possessed by a young boy form the focus for this outstanding animated drama. The plot is based on stories that have entered into African legend as tales of a remarkably... [More]
Reviews for Kirikou and the Sorceress
Top CriticAn enchanting, life-affirming animation of love and redemption, made with no small measure of maturity and care -- along with an all too rare respect for the art of storytelling.
03/10/08
Top CriticOne of the most enchanting animated features in quite some time.
06/24/03
Top CriticA welcome antidote to anodyne Hollywood cartooning.
12/30/06
Top CriticReasonable stuff, but perhaps only for very little children.
08/05/03
Top CriticThe two-dimensional drawings with the characters usually in profile look like folk art and have the feel of a children's book.
03/10/08
The animation is colourful and engaging, with Ocelot drawing on imagery from African tribal art and Egyptian mythology to give the film a unique feel.
01/19/04
For purists, the animated story is a finely detailed expression of storytelling. For kids, the cartoon might be a little too fancy and not enough fun.
03/20/01
Kirikou's depiction of Africa and Africans is dignified, not Disneyfied, and though that may not help the film at the box office, it does make for a welcome change.
03/20/01
One of the best movies so far in this very young year.
03/20/01
It's more a piece to admire than to be involved by, yet it's easy to imagine children hypnotized by a hero tinier than they are when Kirikou is continually loaded into the VCR.
03/20/01
Top CriticShould appeal to younger children and to adults who can appreciate its quiet pleasures.
04/19/02
This charming animated feature is a welcome antidote to the relentless cutesiness inherent in so many child-oriented toons.
03/10/08
Top CriticA gem of a film with important lessons that the whole family will enjoy.
03/20/01
Es una muy agradable sorpresa el encontrar en cartelera comercial esta interesante e inteligente obra de la animación europea
03/20/01
Don't even think of missing it.
07/30/03
Ingenious, comical and beautifully original.
03/19/02
TAn enchanting, life-affirming animation of love and redemption, made with no small measure of maturity and care - along with an all too rare respect for the art of storytelling.
03/10/08
Kirikou and the Sorceress's surprising honesty about the banality of evil makes the movie -- even with all its magic -- feel truly authentic.
06/04/04
Definitely a sunny spot in the mire of frenetic, violent and often dopey cartoon films produced by Hollywood.
03/20/01
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