The Legend of Secret Pass (2010)

The legend of secret pass is a charming CGI animated movie inspired by American Indian mythology,

Director:

Steve Trenbirth

Writers:

Karl Geurs (screenplay), James Costello (screenplay),

Stars:

Zoe Axelrod, Shelley Berman, Michael Chiklis

Cast

Credited cast:
Zoe Axelrod	...	Singer (voice)
Shelley Berman	...	Ira (voice)
Michael Chiklis	...	Calabar (voice)
David Cross	...	Loo (voice)
Debi Derryberry	...	Shelby (voice)
Graham Greene	...	Granpa (voice)
Kim Mai Guest	...	Qui Qui
Cheryl Hines	...	Nitika (voice)
Billy Jones	...	Barth
Gael MacGregor	...	Singer (voice)
Frankie Muniz	...	Manu (voice)
Joe Pantoliano	...	Chuckster (voice)
Ron Perlman	...	Parker (voice)
Christy Romano	...	Nica (voice) (as Christy Carlson Romano)
Ramona Wright	...	Singer (voice)

Storyline

The 'Legend of Secret Pass' takes place in the mountains of the South West and involves Thunderbirds of Indian mythology and an animal refuge of mystical proportions. An unlikely troop of animals and humans are caught up in a clash of ageless magic. In this moment of crisis, the barest chance to avoid cataclysm falls into the hands of an Indian boy, Manu.

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Plot Keywords:

legend

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Taglines:

As the forces of Darkness and Light collide, a child holds the key...to the Secret Pass.

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Genres:

Animation | Family | Fantasy

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Certificate:

G

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

La Leyenda del Pasaje Secreto

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$25,400,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

JC2 Animated Entertainment, Lords Productions, Strategic Dreamers

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

It's OK, but confusing.

My main problem with this animated film was his story and presentation of that story to viewer. First of all, I don't know anything about native American legends and stories, so I think that anybody who is not familiar with that, will have trouble following this story. They have spend more running time of this film on stupid and many times seen attempts at slapstick comedy, then on explaining story to someone for who is this first contact with this mythology. And story issues are main problem with most of recent animated films; you can't compete with Pixar on visual and animation field, but you can be creative with story, and story development.

Next thing that I didn't like, was visual style of some characters; they had "fake" shading; some shadows and highlights ware simply painted on texture of characters. Even that look kind of good in some situations, and it was in style with overall visual feel of film, but unfortunately it looked weird and bad in most of situations. That made characters look "artificial" and lifeless; except few hard shadows, and some direct light, there was little or none visual interaction of characters with environment.

What I liked, was music witch was nicely composed and made nice audio mood, and I liked animation of characters; some characters ware animated better then others, but lucky there was more good animation, then mediocre or bad one. Good animation of characters kind of fixed bad lighting and texturing, and also made characters interesting.

So, in the end, this film is nothing special, and if you don't know back story you will be confused. Watch it if you don't have anything smarter to do.

Story: 3/10 Visuals: 4/10 Animation: 8/10 Comedy: 4/10 Audio: 7/10 Action: 6/10

OVERALL: 5/10