Movie – Song of the sea

Movie –  Song of the sea

Score : 7/10  

Year : 2014

Director:  Tomm Moore

Country: Ireland.  Denmark. Belgium. Luxembourg. France

Language: English. Irish. Scottish Gaelic 

Duration: 1h33

Writers: Will Collins & Tomm Moore (story) 

Beautifully written fable, Song of the sea is one of those rare movies which incorporates mythology - in this case Irish/Scottish. It's art, however, leaves much to be desired ; especially the look of all characters which is much too simplistic and childish. It's a shame that the animation doesn't share the same high standards as the rest of this movie, because it had the potential for it : the mouvement flows very nicely and fluently, following Ben & his sister Saoirse (pronounced : seer-shə) in their adventure to free faeries from their immobility and save their world... 

Very poetic, song of the sea explores self growth to self assertion, through the characters' evolution. It also explores the place of emotions and symbols in our world, and the positive relationship humans can have with animals.... 

I have to admit that I had to watch this movie with subtitles, because there was a lot of mumbling, with thick Irish accents, which are difficult for me to understand.

In spite of this and its shortcoming art, I enjoyed Song of the Sea and suggest watching it with your children and discuss the symbols therein. It's much better to do that than letting them watch senseless and pointless fast paced animation for the attention deficit disorder... 

Voice acting : Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Lucy O'connel, Jon Kenny, et al