Tales From Earthsea (2006) 7/10

Starring : Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Matt Levin
Director : Goro Miyazaki
Running Time : 111 mins

A wandering wizard named Ged (Dalton) travels across the land of Earthsea, trying to discover the reason behind recent sightings of dragons in the land, something that shouldn’t be happening. On his journey he meets a young boy named Arren (Levin) and discovers that an evil wizard named Cobb (Dafoe) is trying to control the realm by tipping the balance of the world towards evil.

With the absence of Hayao Miyazaki as director, it’s to be expected that some of the magic would be missing from this offering from Studio Ghinli. However, on the whole his son Goro does a good job of mimicking his father’s style, particularly with the character of Cobb, whose liquid movements are reminiscent of the creature at the end of Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind.

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