Starchaser: Legend of Orin
02 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in At the Movies, Review
Of all the animated movies I watched as a kid very few can still be considered good after watching it as an adult 25 years later. It is hard to describe what I felt as a kid when I watched the movie on the TV other than I liked it very much, of course when you’re a kid you pretty much like everything that is shown on the TV.
For those who don’t know Starchaser: Legend of Orin is an animated film that was released in 1985 and according to IMDB was filmed in 3-D.
“Set on the subterranean Mine-World, a band of human worker are treated like slaves under the power of the evil overlord Zygon until one, Orin, unearths the hilt of a mythical sword that only he can master. Escaping the planet, he runs into the rogue smuggler Dagg and a pair of helpful droids and the princess, who all team up to return to the Mine-World with a plan to defeat Zygon and free Orin’s enslaved people. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}“
Last week I decided to watch Starchaser again and I found that I still liked the movie very much, the overall theme and plot mostly follow “The Chosen One” story a bit cliché I know. Starchaser has a very Star Wars feel to it from the characters to the way they interacted with each other, to the plot and finally to the music score. There is one part that I tought I was actually listening to Star Wars music. The animation is top-notch and seems to have stood the test of time, this come from when we had Thundercats, Transformers, He-man just to name a few. The voice acting was also pertinent and didn’t have annoying voices that you would sometimes found in animated films. If you look at the voice actors section of Starchaser on http://www.imdb.com you’ll see talent like Anthony De Longis and quite a few others.
The one of things I have to nitpick about Starchaser is the pacing sometimes things would happen very fast and would leave you with a what did just happen question. I think this is mostly due because this was a 1h47 minute length film and not say a trilogy or even a mini-series. Also there are some very wierd situations in the films that make you wonder if this was really targeted at children but then this was the 80′s there was no rating content back then.
Starchaser even after 25 years is a movie that stood the test of time and is well worth watching again especially if like me you watched it as a kid.
Above is the 1986 trailer of Starchaser, if my post didn’t convince you to watch it!
