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The actual quality of the animation was very disappointing. Admittedly you can't expect the quality of Shrek or Finding Nemo with these independent productions, but their quality was almost like Tom & Jerry of mid-80's. Jerky motions and stale 2-D color animation.
I am also not sure what is the target audience for this movie. We had a bunch of kids in our group (several muslim families who went together), and any kid younger than 8-9 years old, was having trouble understanding the whole story, cz they are not familiar with all the characters. Plus a number of scenes showing torture to early muslims and war were a bit traumatic for young kids. On the other hand, anyone over 14-15 would lose interest quickly because of the quality of animation. Adults are only watching it to support a muslim movie or to show their kids what it is all about, because otherwise, in all honesty, "The Message" is a far more powerful and visually stimulating movie on the exact same topic, and covering the exact same events.
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You stole the words right out of my mouth!!!
I was VERY SURPRISED about the shoddy tech work! I was thinking Tom and Jerry all along too while watching it. Plus the blurriness in some scenes was quite harsh on my eyes.
The kids were either sleeping or asking their moms when they could go home. We went to support the cause as well.
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Plus the blurriness in some scenes was quite harsh on my eyes.
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I don't know which scenes you are referring to... but in the battle scenes of Badar, the animation was quite blurry and I thought that was because they wanted to show that angels came down to fight against the kuffar (atleast that is what I whispered to my son, who was sitting next to me :o )
I'm not sure why everyone is making such a big deal out of animation. I thought it was pretty good. These people didn't have hundred's of millions of dollars at their diposal like Finding Nemo and Shrek did, nor do they have the same huge audience. They'll be lucky if they can cover their cost with the movie sale. We should encourage such projects in the muslim world, as animation in Finding Nemo would've never been so good had there been no Tom and Jerry animations in the past.
I thought the story was pretty well laid out. You all have to keep in mind that this movie is tyring to cover history, and history lessons are usually not very exciting for anyone, including kids. For older audience, like me, who know most of the early history of islam already, there was little or no new information but I still enjoyed the production, especially given all the restrictions the producers had on who to show and what events to cover, etc. I think all the kids in the theatre did learn the early histroy of islam and enjoyed the movie.
and, to all who think prophet's voice was in the movie, you are wrong. Prophet never spoke in the movie. It was just the narrator speaking on Prophet's behalf.
I've been trying to locate the Box Office figures for this film. But they arent anywhere, not even rottentomatoes.....wonder if they r downplaying this film or something?