The Secret of Kells
Turn the darkness into light
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 5, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Evan McGuire, Michael McGrath & Brendan Gleeson | |
Directed by | Tomm Moore | |
Screenwriting by | Fabrice Zolkowski | |
Composition by | Bruno Coulais & Kila | |
Story by | Tomm Moore | |
Voice: | Evan McGuire, Christen Mooney, Liam Hourican, Mick Lally, Brendan Gleeson, Paul Tylak, Michael McGrath & Paul Young |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Very few animated films have had such a mesmerizing, puzzle-like quality.
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LarsenOnFilm
Visually, SECRET OF KELLS is a breathtaking movie, one where every frame seems to have dozens of dazzling layers.
A.V. Club
KELLS has a decidedly pleasing-to-the-eye retro-cartoon vibe....The result is an intriguing and rare artistic subgenre...
Film Comment
Rating: 3/5 --
Tomm Moore's Irish animation, drawn with painstaking reference to both Celtic myth and medieval manuscripts, possesses a lively originality that shows Europe's animators not far behind America's and in some ways in front of them.
London Evening Standard
The stirring tale, with its vibrant, mainly hand-drawn animation, serves as a valuable reminder that one doesn't always need 3D to make an image pop.
Hollywood Reporter
3 stars out of 4 -- Just as every margin of the Book of Kells is crowded with minute and glorious decorations, so is every shot of the film filled with patterns and borders, arches and frames, do-dads and scrimshaw images. The colors are bold and bright.
Chicago Sun-Times
A ravishing, continually surprising example of hand-drawn animation in the heyday of computer-generated imagery....THE SECRET OF KELLS teaches important lessons in the most casual, joyful way.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Follow 12-year-old Brendan (voice of Evan McGuire) as he battles Vikings and confronts an ancient serpent god on a mission to locate a legendary crystal and complete the mythical Book of Kells. Brendan lives in a heavily fortified medieval outpost known as the Abbey of Kells, where the ongoing threat of Viking raids causes the peaceful monks to live in a state of constant fear. Along with his uncle, Abbot Cellach, Brendan labors to fortify the abbey walls daily so his people will be protected from invading forces. When the mysterious Brother Aidan arrives at the abbey carrying an unfinished tome filled mystical secrets, Brendan becomes illuminated, and his dormant talents are awakened. The book must be finished, but accomplishing that mission will be no simple task. As the Vikings close in, Brendan ventures into the surrounding forest and prepares to confront his darkest fears. Accompanying him on his dangerous mission is Aisling, a half-wolf/half-human fairy whose powers will help to guide Brendan through this enchanting yet dangerous new world.
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Product Info
- UPC: 767685229026
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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