Mangchi (2003)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Tae-geun Ahn

Writers:

Cheol-woo Ahn (writer)
Jeong-woon Choi (writer)

Release Date:

6 August 2004 (South Korea)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Mangchi is a young boy with few problems and an easy disposition. Living on a building in the middle of the sea...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Comic | Korea | Anime | South Korea | Comic

Cast

Seo-young Kim	...	Mangchi / Hammerboy (voice)
Jeong-min Bae	...	Princess Poplar (voice)
Yong-jun Kim	...	Grandfather (voice)
Seok-pil Choi	...	Moonk (voice)
Su-rim Han	...	Aeng-du (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Barry Banner	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
R.P. Blondell	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
David Brimmer	...	Pultaco (voice: English version) (as Michael Alston Bailey)
Tristan Goddard	...	Grandfather (voice: English version) (as David Logan Rankin)
Dan Green	...	Moonk (voice: English version) (as James Hadley)
Rebecca Honig	...	Angdu's Mother (voice: English version)
Roxy Max Kaplan	...	Patrol Commander (voice: English version) (as Rory Max Kaplan)
Ross Lefko	...	Mr. Winebottle (voice: English version)
Rachael Lillis	...	Poplar (voice: English version)
Josh Mosby	...	Nanajule (voice: English version)
Kelly Ray	...	Angdu (voice: English version)
Hank Roberts	...	Mooskan (voice: English version)
Andrew Scott	...	King Waldo (voice: English version)
Veronica Taylor	...	Mangchi (voice: English version)
Bill Timoney	...	Angdu's Father (voice: English version)

Also Known As:

Hammerboy (International: English title)
Hammer Boy (International: English title) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:All

Company:

Character Plan

Lesser animated film from Korea

This is a Korean animated film that came to my attention a while back when it played the New York Children's Film Festival. Currently on Voom's family channel I watched a good bit of this turkey before turning it off. The plot has something to do with an obnoxious kid on a flying bicycle (Hey they call him obnoxious in the movie) rescuing a princess and getting involved with a usurper to her throne and a war. Playing and looking like a dozen or two other animated films from the Far East this film has nothing to set it apart from any other film except that its main character is the sort of fellow you'd like to drown. The less said the better. This is one of the Children Film Fest's "What were they thinking?" films. Only to be approached on cable.