Delgo [Blu-ray] |  | Actors: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt
Studio: Freestyle Releasing
Category: DVD
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Rating:  16 reviews
Language: English (Unknown)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
ASIN: B001NPD9TU
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 2008
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Delgo is a computer-animated film that is at once fantasy, action, and drama, with an added dose of comedy. The most amazing thing about the film, besides the fact that it was 10 years in the making, is its rich graphic rendering of a world that's unlike any other. The backgrounds have an almost painted quality and the contrast of the stark, resource depleted planet of the Nohrins and the natural, dreamlike world of Jhamora is striking thanks to intense color saturation and an impressive level of visual detail. Despite its uniqueness, Jhamora is plagued by an all-too-common conflict rooted in the cultural and moral differences of its two peoples. This epic story follows two young teenagers, Nohrin Princess Kyla (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Lockni Jhamora native Delgo (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who share a common dream of cultural acceptance and cooperation as they fall into friendship and then love. Exiled Nohrin Sedessa (Anne Bancroft), who was banished from Jhamora for killing King Zahn's (Louis Gossett Jr.) wife (Princess Kyla's mother), and General Raius (Malcolm McDowell) kidnap Princess Kyla--an event which leads to Delgo and his bumbling friend Filo (Chris Kattan) being imprisoned for the crime and incites war between the two peoples. Can peace possibly return to Jhamora without the total extermination of either the Nohrin or the Lockni people? Battlefield action on the ground and in the sky is intense and omnipresent throughout the film and the story is interesting, if not original, but the animation is at times rather choppy and almost video-game-like and somehow the film just isn't all that engaging. Bonus features include commentary with co-writer and producer Marc Adler, co-director and co-writer Jason Maurer, and animation and visual effects supervisor Warren Grubb; a behind the scenes look at how the voice talent shaped the film's characters, a featurette detailing the composer's and sound designer's thoughts about the sounds of Delgo; meet the characters and creatures functions, and six deleted scenes. (Ages 10 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
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 Annoying February 26, 2010
HEN (Carbondale, Il)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The charters are unsightly, the story line is predictable. I could not watch more than 10 or 15 minutes of this movie. Delgo is a total waste of money.
 Beautiful Animation, Derivative Fantasy, Dratted Jar-Jar Binks January 7, 2010
Ana Mardoll (United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Delgo / B002C2KB12
About 20 minutes into "Delgo", I felt forced to speak up. "OK, movie," I said, "I'll make you a deal. You get rid of Jar-Jar Binks, and I'll give you four stars. But if I see one more minute of him, you're getting two."
The movie, sadly, didn't listen, and here we are.
"Delgo" is set is a gorgeous fantasy world, more like a dreamy painting than your usual animation fare. The plot is *extremely* derivative (two war-torn races produce two plucky young people of opposite genders, fill in the blanks from there), but the star-crossed lovers destined to unite their peoples is an oldie-but-goodie, so I'm not inclined to complain about that, especially in a movie directed at children. The voice-acting is well-done for the most part, the female character holds her own for the most part (although it's a shame she wasn't allowed to share the movie title with the male character - imagine if Shakespeare's famous play had just been called "Romeo"), and the plot moves nicely along without many low points.
But admist all this lukewarm praise plops the big, smelly comic relief. For reasons that I cannot begin to fathom, someone thought it would be a good idea to drop a Jar-Jar Binks side-kick into the movie, and then proceed to let him eat up at least 30% of the screentime. He whines, he sniffles, he traipses about in gleeful stupidity - all with a screeching, high-pitched, baby-talk tone that makes me want to claw my ears off my face. Yes, "Delgo" is a kids' movie, but Shrek proved that kids' movies (with comic relief, even!) could be fun, even for adults. "Delgo", sadly, is not.
~ Ana Mardoll
Annoying January 3, 2010
alphachapmtl (Montreal, Canada)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
That movie was terribly annoying.
The characters are overexcited, overacted, and ugly.
The story I couldn't care at all.
UNEVEN AND FLAWED, YET FASCINATING FANTASY 7 OUT OF 10 December 26, 2009
ACEMAN1 (Ripon, California)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I wasn't sure of what I was getting into with Delgo when I was getting ready to watch it. Despite the fact that customers on this site praise this film, this film on every other site I've seen has been savagely torn apart by critics and moviegoers alike (27 out of 100 on Metacritic and a 13% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). I was pleasantly surprised with Delgo, and I actually got a decent film out of it. It's most certainly not the greatest animated film I've ever seen, and it will never make any "Best" lists, but it's still worth a look.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The film starts off by telling us of a war between two races, and a power struggle between a royal family. An evil woman named Sedessa tries to take over more of the enemy's territory, and when she is banished from the royal family, she then kills the king's wife and then loses her wings and is banished to a faraway land where years later she attempts to start war again. We are then introduced to our hero, Delgo whose parents were killed in the war years ago, his friend Filo, and then a girl from the other race named Kyla who is the daughter of the king. Together the group (Along with some other friends) must stop Sedessa from taking over the land and murdering the king.
MUSIC: The music is actually pretty good and it fits the mood quite well. I was never bored with it and it always flowed well with the film.
ACTING: They managed to get some pretty good actors to play in this film, and for the most part the actors were actually pretty good. I don't who the voice-actor for the character Filo was, but he annoyed the ever-loving crap out of me. I was just rooting for the bad guys in this film to kill him off, but sadly it never came. If you thought the Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks was the most annoying character ever, think again there are much worse as proven by this character Filo. However, the rest of the voice-acting was good, even there were moments of cheesy dialogue.
ACTION: This film's biggest flaw is the lack of originality in, well, everything to be precise. None of these characters felt original, and seemed to be the usual stereotypical fantasy heroes we're accustomed to. There wasn't really anything that made me care about these characters and there was just no real way to relate to them. This film does however, feature some pretty good action sequences that can be rather explosive at times and really fun to watch. However, there's always that nagging feeling in the back of your head because you've already seen this before in other (Superior) films. While the CGI animation looks pretty, it's definitely not the best-looking CGI film I've ever seen (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is the best-looking of them all, and I recommend you see it).
OVERALL: While Delgo is most likely not going to wow you, it offers a good time that's worth the money despite the lack of originality. It offers enough good times that should keep the family entertained and there's enough humor to keep things flowing as well. However, you have other options at hand. Still, it won't hurt to try this film.
THE GOOD: Good CGI animation, good music, good acting, cool action scenes.
THE BAD: Nothing really feels original, some animation is stilted and awkward, and I despise the voice-acting of Filo.
 Beautiful animation with a wonderful story! December 5, 2009
n2ativ (Bastrop, La USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found Delgo to be beautifully made, with an artisic originality not found in other animated films I've experienced. The characters are fantastical and refreshingly different. I loved this film, and I would recommend it as a great movie for the family with small children.
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