Delgo Review

Delgo

Release Date: 12th December 2008 - USA

Production Companies

Electric Eye Entertainment

Corporation (presents)

Fathom Studios

Genre: Animation/Family/

Fantasy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 90 minutes

Budget: $40,000,000

Box Office Gross: $915,840 (USA)

Plot Summary

Jhamora is a land torn apart

by the hostility of two

species - the Nohrin, the

winged lords of the skies,

and the Lokni, the land

dwellers who wield the

mystical powers of the

land. When a rash Lokni

teenager, Delgo, strikes up

a forbidden friendship with

the fiery Nohrin Princess

named Kyla, tensions

between the two peoples

explode, allowing Sedessa,

an exiled Empress, to seek

revenge and regain her rule.

Voice Cast

Freddie Prinze Jr. - Delgo

Jennifer Love Hewitt -

Princess Kyla

Chris Kattan - Filo

Val Kilmer - General Bogardus

Anne Bancroft - Sedessa

Louis Gossett Jr. - King Zahn

Malcolm McDowell - Raius

Michael Clarke Duncan -

Elder Marley

Eric Idle - Spig

Sally Kellerman - Narrator

Burt Reynolds - Delgo's

Father (Cameo)

Kelly Ripa - Kurrin

Jed Rhein - Ando

Jeff Winter - Giddy/

Lokni Man

Armin Shimerman - Nohrin Merchant

Don Stallings - Gelmore/

Elder Kiros

Brad Abrell - Spog

Melissa McBride - Elder Pearo

Tristan Rogers - Nohrin Officer

Gustavo Rex - Elder Canta

Nika Futterman - Elder Jaspin

John Vernon - Nohrin Judge

Susan Bennett - Melsa

David Heyer - Talusi

Mary Mouser - Baby Delgo

Louis K. Adler - Soldiers

Crew

Story/Executive Producer/

Producer/Director - Marc F. Adler

Story/Screenplay - Jason Maurer

and Scott Biear
Screenplay - Patrick J. Cowan and Carl Dream
Screenplay/Associate Producer - Jennifer Jones-Mitchell

Art Director - A.W. Jackson
Storyboard Artist - Jang Chol Lee

Director of Photography - Herb Kossover

Animation Director - Warren Grubb

Technical Director - John Lytle
Visual Effects Supervisor - Floyd Casey
Lighting Supervisor - Stephanie Cushing

Supervising Sound Designer/Re-Recording

Mixer - Tom Ozanich

Sound Effects Editors - Dane A. Davis,

Bill R. Dean, Glynna Grimala,

Greg Hedgepath, Ronald Hill,

Eric Warren Lindemann and Mark Larry

Music - Geoff Zanelli

Review

After reviewing Red Dog for Australia Day, I decided to begin work on the review of DELGO and watch it for the second time. It is the second lowest-grossing CGI film and has the potential to be an exciting independent animated motion picture, but let's face it. DELGO didn't have the excitement you'd expect. From what I read, the film took nine years to produce. I feel sorry for its creator, Marc F. Adler, who scraped $40 million all on his own for this movie's production as it becomes clear he genuinely believed in DELGO and desperately wanted to make an entertaining film. Unfortunately, he's not good at it.

The CGI animation is okay, a lot of celebrity voice talent got wasted, the themes and messages are heavy-handed, the plot is entirely unoriginal, and the comedy relief is terrible, particularly Filo, who is ten times more annoying than Star Wars' own Jar Jar Binks. My gosh, he is so irritating. Even Chris Kattan's voice performance makes it even worse. Next, there are bright spots, the environments and the creature designs are incredible, the action is decent, and the late Anne Bancroft is fabulous in her final performance as the evil villainess, Sedessa, but won't save DELGO this time.

It's no fault the animated fantasy movie bombed at the box office and failed all audiences, not because of Filo and the cliched plot. It was not promoted or marketed and lacked a major distributor. DELGO is an overlooked feature that is below average and wasn't everyone's cup of tea. If you want to see a similar movie with an interracial romance and floating islands, pick Avatar instead, which came out the following year and has better visuals.

Star rating: (2/5) Bad Movie

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