It's a bit sad to see that German animation films are not very frequent and if a new one comes out, it is usually fairly weak. German live action kids movies (usually based on novels) look so much better currently. "Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss" is not an exception here sadly. It comes from the team behind "Ritter Rost", a movie which at least made the long list for German submissions to the Academy Awards this year (and probably would not have been a worse choice than the actual disastrous selection "Beloved Sisters").
Anyway, back this film. There are two kinds of dragons living here. Dragons who always want to eat and dragons who spit fire. The main character is one of the latter and the hungry dragons turn out as the villains of the story, even if one of them, a small one, is a friend of the main character. And as if this isn't already enough the central character also has to learn how to fly and really struggles with it. The animation wasn't too bad all in all, but the story just never really wowed me and I felt it dragged occasionally even if the film runs under 90 minutes. There were many kids in this movie and usually I hear them laugh a lot, but even they did not seem to find the movie too funny really. The voice acting cast is mediocre. Dustin Semmelrooge would never be known to anybody without his dad and Max von der Groeben I don't see much talent either. Kebekus and Michelsen are okay.
It looks like there will be a TV show about the little dragon Coconut this year too. I can't recommend watching the movie, but you could always catch an episode of the television series and decide afterward if you want to give the film a chance. For me, one main problem was that many characters were just there, but never really elaborated on, like the porcupine, which I still liked, or the very good schoolgirl dragon named Pineapple. It was unclear if she was a friend or foe to the main character and a solution never really came.
Anyway, back this film. There are two kinds of dragons living here. Dragons who always want to eat and dragons who spit fire. The main character is one of the latter and the hungry dragons turn out as the villains of the story, even if one of them, a small one, is a friend of the main character. And as if this isn't already enough the central character also has to learn how to fly and really struggles with it. The animation wasn't too bad all in all, but the story just never really wowed me and I felt it dragged occasionally even if the film runs under 90 minutes. There were many kids in this movie and usually I hear them laugh a lot, but even they did not seem to find the movie too funny really. The voice acting cast is mediocre. Dustin Semmelrooge would never be known to anybody without his dad and Max von der Groeben I don't see much talent either. Kebekus and Michelsen are okay.
It looks like there will be a TV show about the little dragon Coconut this year too. I can't recommend watching the movie, but you could always catch an episode of the television series and decide afterward if you want to give the film a chance. For me, one main problem was that many characters were just there, but never really elaborated on, like the porcupine, which I still liked, or the very good schoolgirl dragon named Pineapple. It was unclear if she was a friend or foe to the main character and a solution never really came.