The Wild Swans (Nostalgia Critic)

The Wild Swans

 * Aired: July 14th, 2015
 * Previous review: Planet of the Apes
 * Next review: Osmosis Jones

Transcript
(the Channel Awesome logo, intro, cut to Nostalgia Critic sitting in the chair)

NC: Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it, so you don't have to. So, let's not waste any time, let's get started with our very first one, The Wild Swans.

NC (vo): It was a public domain fairy tale in 1838. It was about a brave little princess comes to the rescue of her brothers who have been turned into six wild swans by the evil sorceresses.

NC: Have to ever seen of the well-known Japanese animated film in 1977, known as Toei's fairy tale.

(the English dubbed title is shown, the movie clips is shown as NC speaks. "Chamber Of The Sages" from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time plays by Nintendo Music, composed by Koji Kondo)

NC (vo): It's unlikely you've ever heard of it, but it's getting more and more of a following as, you guessed it, The Wild Swans, the decent Toei's fairy tale ever made. The film combines both Andersen's and the Grimm Brothers' versions of the story. (images of The Wild Swans and The Six Swans is shown.) Instead of eleven brothers, it was narrowed down to six, like in the Grimms' version. And in the middle of the story with the stinging nettles and the ending are strictly Andersen's; I do prefer Andersen's version. Even a Disney ripoffs got similar to Bambi and Sleeping Beauty, (posters of Bambi and Sleeping Beauty is shown.) which their characters are decently hell of a ripoff characters what Studio Ghibli with Isao Takahata made them ripoffs. (image of a characters such as Heidi by Isao Takahata and Hilda from Horus: Prince of the Sun by Isao Takahata is shown.) Such a pity, those characters had to do comparing the magically video game, (an image of...) The Legend of Zelda series; though, it's complicated. The animation is stunning, mystical and ethereal with backgrounds that are lavish and characters that are well designed. For example you have the protagonist Elisa, she is beautifully drawn and I could relate to her because of the fact she was very kind-hearted here and loyal to her brothers, in contrast with a grotesque-looking character such as the Witch who serves as the main villainess of the piece. Another delight was the music, some of it was simple but it was nevertheless haunting and beautiful. Because it's so much beautiful and touching anime version of the timeless story.

NC: Well, it's nothing but the sequel cannot be with this after all. (as Man shoots Bambi's mom at offscreen as he startles with a gun sound) But the decent prequel surely is. (a shot of Elisa's Beginning poster with young Elisa and the youngest brother) Let's take a look at Toei's fairy tale, The Wild Swans.

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