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4.3/10
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Delgo, an adventurous but naive teenager, must rally his group of friends to protect their world from conflict between the Lockni and Nohrin people.Delgo, an adventurous but naive teenager, must rally his group of friends to protect their world from conflict between the Lockni and Nohrin people.Delgo, an adventurous but naive teenager, must rally his group of friends to protect their world from conflict between the Lockni and Nohrin people.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
- Delgo
- (voice)
Val Kilmer
- Bogardus
- (voice)
Anne Bancroft
- Sedessa
- (voice)
Chris Kattan
- Filo
- (voice)
Malcolm McDowell
- Raius
- (voice)
Louis Gossett Jr.
- King Zahn
- (voice)
Burt Reynolds
- Delgo's Father
- (voice)
Kelly Ripa
- Kurrin
- (voice)
Sally Kellerman
- Narrator
- (voice)
Melissa McBride
- Miss Sutley
- (voice)
- …
Jeff Winter
- Giddy
- (voice)
- …
Don Stallings
- Gelmore
- (voice)
- …
Brad Abrell
- Spog
- (voice)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe film was released on 2,160 screens and grossed a total of over $690,000 against a budget of $40,000,000. It had the lowest per-theater gross on its opening weekend of any wide release in American film history, breaking the record set by The Ten Commandments (2007). The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012) broke Delgo's opening-weekend record.
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A disappointment, with some brief good moments
Wow. It's like Lord of the Rings never happened at the start of the decade.
Even the opening credits sequence with those bloated flying things just made me cringe.
It appears to have been written and animated by middle-schoolers, and yes they were probably high too. They had to bring in all that big-name talent to do the voices, or the handful of people who did go see this film wouldn't have even gone.
However, I do credit the animators with at least making a handful of nice images in the film. But really, a film like this should be beautiful to look at from start to finish, not just a few brief instants.
There are not-so-subtly racist overtones, and the use of the slur "pansies" renders it even unfit for viewing by children, although infants are probably the only age group likely to be able to enjoy it.
Watching this, I feel insulted as a viewer. It's geared towards infants, as far as I can tell. Of course, so was Toy Story, but the difference is that Toy Story is a masterpiece, and this is ... not.
And the thing was about 30 minutes too long.
If I had been associated with this project, I would have wanted it to disappear quickly and be permanently "lost". I would not be alleging that a more competent team "stole" it. But, these days, it seems the courts are the refuge of the incompetent, when it comes to content creation. Avatar is such a superior work that obviously required far more effort, that there is just no way that the Delgo team could ever hope to claim to have contributed to it. Rather, it seems more likely to me as a viewer that Delgo was ripped off from Avatar, and rushed out the door to beat it to market. An inside job.
Even the opening credits sequence with those bloated flying things just made me cringe.
It appears to have been written and animated by middle-schoolers, and yes they were probably high too. They had to bring in all that big-name talent to do the voices, or the handful of people who did go see this film wouldn't have even gone.
However, I do credit the animators with at least making a handful of nice images in the film. But really, a film like this should be beautiful to look at from start to finish, not just a few brief instants.
There are not-so-subtly racist overtones, and the use of the slur "pansies" renders it even unfit for viewing by children, although infants are probably the only age group likely to be able to enjoy it.
Watching this, I feel insulted as a viewer. It's geared towards infants, as far as I can tell. Of course, so was Toy Story, but the difference is that Toy Story is a masterpiece, and this is ... not.
And the thing was about 30 minutes too long.
If I had been associated with this project, I would have wanted it to disappear quickly and be permanently "lost". I would not be alleging that a more competent team "stole" it. But, these days, it seems the courts are the refuge of the incompetent, when it comes to content creation. Avatar is such a superior work that obviously required far more effort, that there is just no way that the Delgo team could ever hope to claim to have contributed to it. Rather, it seems more likely to me as a viewer that Delgo was ripped off from Avatar, and rushed out the door to beat it to market. An inside job.
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- rgcustomer
- Feb 13, 2010
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Box office
- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $694,782
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $511,920
- Dec 14, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $694,782
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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