Throne of Elves (2017) Reviews

• Another Masterpiece!

  bjingtan2018-01-06

  Favorite fantasy animation film of all time! everything was perfect from Warriors Dawn to Throne of Elves. I'm inlove with this film the characters, the animation, everything. Don't care about the negative comments. This animation was a gem really hoping we can get another sequel of this.

• very good but not excellent

  huangxian2016-08-20

  I have to admit that after years of watching Hollywood style cartoon, this Chinese Made animation movie really catches my eye! It has very clear story-line; characters with different personalities; villain with brain and good strategy; beautiful designs and eye catching high quality pictures. The only negative thing for this movie is the copyright problem with the game operator, so the movie maker had deleted many characters, only keep the very few of them. If you are simply an animation movie fan, do not miss this Great Movie! It will not let you down. Watch it with your Kids!

• And I thought my sister was bad.

  nogodnomasters2017-09-18

  This is the sequel to "Dragon's Nest." If you missed it, they summarize it. Little Fish, a human and Liya, an elf defeat a dragon together and have a long distance relationship. The sophisticated elves, who all look like they are Icelandic models, do not approve of the oafish humans. There is a life crystal and a dark crystal. No Skeksis, but an evil sister who looks like Maleficent and controls the dark crystal. At this point, the film is set up for you to write. While there is a love story, it stays very Platonic. Little Fish plays Silver Surfer. I wish they had did something else with the sound track. Seems it would have more of a girl appeal, 8-11 maybe. As a male adult, I was pretty well bored looking at what could be an Elvenar promotion film.

• Mediocre fantasy knockoff

  bbshockwave2017-09-18

  Where do I begin... from the 8-10 star reviews written in chinglish, you can guess who is up-voting this movie. Don't believe them. This is such a generic fantasy movie, it hurts. Also, it steals - blatantly - from other movies, games, books. In many ways, it is like a lot of Chinese knockoff toys and action figures - it looks, at first glance, like a quality product, but quickly falls apart under scrutiny. The story could not be more convoluted if it tried - that is unless this is a sequel to a movie that never came out? We are told, in a drawn flashback of the heroics of Generic McHeroguy, who saved the (creepily underage-looking) elf princess from a dragon, and yet now travels back to a human city to be a blacksmith. They keep in contact via magically sent arrow-mail. He has a dwarf smith mentor who invented the steampunk hoverboard (see Treasure Planet), and his greatest personality trait are his giant eyebrows. They are also joined by two disgustingly cute fluffy sphere-shaped dog-creatures that sadly, are in the whole movie to be annoying (see Minions.) McHeroGuy is also capable of the Fus Ro Dah dragon-shout, we never learn how. (see Skyrim). They are finally joined by a burly big barbarian on a steampunk flying ship (see Miyazaki movies) who barely contributes anything to the plot. In the meantime, the mother (sister?) of the princess, who has ridiculously long giant elf ears (see Warcraft) is getting ready for a wedding. However, her evil dark elf sister (see D&D and myriad other sources) uses some magic dark crystal to summon the fallen spirits of dead elves to distrupt the ceremony. Who is? Why does she hate her sister? What's the deal with a whole city of dead elves just a few kilometers away from the elf kingdom lying there unburied? Again, never explained. So our hero arrives to stop the attack on the wedding. Did I say stop? I mean, stand around and think hard while elves are massacred left and right. Get ready for this - as if the heroes thought this was an anime, they never try to shoot the obviously attacking villain first, they stand and raise questions at her even while she is merrily blasting away at them with magic. In the fight McHeroboy wounds Ms Darkelf with an arrow, who returns it with interest. This infects him with darkness that sometimes lets her control him... how, why? Again, never explained. So Ms Darkelf McHips is apparently after a green magic crystal that she expected her sister would have on her, but which was not there... so she kidnaps her on a flying rock ship. Get ready for many, many pointless scenes of Ms Darkelf torturing her sister for the location of the crystal, deciding to kill her, then not doing it, then letting her escape easily and then recapturing her, and generally doing everything WRONG in the Evil Overlord list in not letting your captives escape easily. McHeroboy, Eyebrows the Dwarf, Generic Barbarian and Loli Elf Princess then form a Fellowship of the Something (see LOTR) to save the princess. All the while, the snotty elves (see also LOTR/the Hobbit) insist they are better at this, and as expected, fail terribly, getting murdered by the hundred, because they somehow expected arrows, no matter how magical, to be effective against non-corporeal undead. Barbarian dude saves the king/father/whoever and a few survivors on his ship, while McHeroguy easily finds the (older) Princess but is somehow blackmailed into getting the crystal for Ms Darkelf instead. Then shenanigans happen and our hero is taken over totally by evil, yet he retains enough self restraint to break his arrow before shooting Loli Elf Princess. Unfortunately for him, she did not return the favor and shot him point blank in the chest. But of course, despite her father's warning that she could die, she uses the green crystal to revive McHeroboy easily because true love conquers all... So final battle - the villain easily defeats everyone, until Deus Ex Green Tentacles appear and tie her up, because apparently the older Elf Princess can easily do that with the green crystal. Why did she not do this from the start, who knows. Ms Darkelf then merges with the dark crystal and turns into a zerg-dragon-elf hybrid (see Queen of Blades, Starcraft), as usual with the trope, losing her speech ability in the process. McHeroboy then seemingly betrays Loli Princess and gives the villain the crystal, only to Fus Ro Dah her into a volcano. She survives this however because... she can turn to smoke?... and grabs both crystals and McHeroBoy. She is stupid enough to not drop him into the volcano right away though, and he triggers the crystal, and both fall into the volcano that sprouts green leaves, makes all the undead spirits depart to elf heaven (?) and then OF COURSE McHeroboy is rebuilt by the crystal while the elves wonder what the hell was the point of all this. Nothing was gained, they just turned a volcano into a tree, everyone who died is still dead, and Ms Darkelf I guess died too (of course the crystal would only bring back McHeroBoy). We end with a forced extra romance between Generic Barbarian and Tomboy Shorthaired Elf Archer who I swear appeared from out of nowhere with no introduction in the last 20 minutes of the movie. So overall, the movie is a terribly generic good vs. evil story you have seen a hundred times, stealing designs and plot elements from much better movies and games. It is also creepy, because while McHeroBoy looks 20-something, the elf princess love interest looks SO underage, it is really uncomfortable to watch their "romance".At any rate, do not bother with this unless like me, you feel it is your duty to check out every animated movie ever.

• Excellent movie...

  guptapulkit-847042018-10-18

  Just awesome movie to watch with family. I am big fan of animated movies and it just feels perfect......... ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ????