The Legend of Blanson (film)

The Legend of Blanson is the First animated feature in the Warner Bros Animated Canon. It was produced by DSH Films, Sun-Bright Entertainment and released to theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures and RatPac-Dune Entertainment on June 18, 2019. It is created by Dexter Standish-Hunt who made the world of Prehistoric age, and is the only major motion picture version of the Blanson property to be animated.

Blanson is sometimes considered to be the last major box office success of the Warner Bros. Renaissance before the studio's decline in the mid to late 2020s (sometimes known as Warner Bros Second Dark Age). Other critics consider Dunkrik (2017) to be the last film in the Warner Bros Renaissance. At the time of its release, its production budget of $130 million made it the most expensive animated film ever made, until topped by Disney's own $140 million Treasure Planet in 2002. It was also the first Warner Bros feature to open at first place at the North American box office since Happy Feet (2006).

It is also the last "bona fide" hit before the Warner Bros slump of the early 2020s making $171,091,819 in domestic gross and $448,191,819 worldwide. Even so, the overall commercial and critical success did not match that of the early 2010's Warner Bros movies. Today, it is seen as a modest hit. However, it should be noted that some movie critics and animation historians consider this the first film of Warner Bros Second Dark Age; mostly due to the fact it was a departure from the musical format.

Plot
In the late Jurassic Period off the coast of South America, a young couple and their toddler son escape a burning ship and land on the unexplored rainforests of South America, where they craft themselves to go on a mission in which to live their Research Facility with Soldiers in order to survive ("Crazy"). Meanwhile, a Lesothosaurus couple, Coelophysis King named Jirtech and a Human Andy are traveling with the rest of their group when their infant son is killed and eaten by a terrifying creature named Vanghol. The next day, the still-heartbroken Lesothosaurus hears a distant cave child's cry and, following it, stumbles upon the Laboratory. He enters the treehouse to find it trashed, and blood covered claw prints (as well as the corpses of the couple) on the floor. Kala rescues the baby from a still-hungry Sabor and returns with it to the rest of the group, but Kerchak despises the boy for his appearance. Nevertheless, Kala decides to raise the boy as her own, naming him Tarzan ("You'll Be in My Heart").

A few years later, Tarzan makes friends with Kala and Kerchak's