Ah Chivalry. Too bad that chivalry probably never existed. That's what happens when you go to University and they demolish all your preconceived notions of the world. It was a cute film about a mouse that wasn't afraid of anything and a real zest and curiousity for life, a sad family, the suppression of rats and soup. Yes soup. It was funny, it was also entertaining for adults. Despereaux was just so darn cute. Not to mention the handful of actors that had a part in this. What's up with only known people acting in animations??? Back to the film. Like all children films it had a moral. I appreciated the honour and noble behaviour and actions. It had saving a princess and sword fighting... well sewing needle sword fighting. It had the amphitheartre, a bit of Gulliver's Travels, King Arthur's Round Table, and so many other literary references that I can't remember since I watched this on Friday. I also liked the animation, it was very Byzantine and Italian which actually artisitically represented the time that this story took place. I appreciated the close detail to the artistic style at the time. Though, there should have been something biblical in this since the church was a mjor influence in this century it portrays. That's just me being correct. Maybe if I watched it again and looked for it, I could probably find biblical references. I only picked up on the ones I mentioned. This was super cute. The only thing I didn't like was how the little servant girl looked or the voice of the girl. Something was very off putting in her actions and psychosis of wanting to be a princess and having pure hatred for the princess... all over a tiara. I liked the ending with all the coincidences and that there does seem to be order to the chaos of things. At least I think there is... the world creates a balance and sometimes you have to wait a long time before the balance happens, but it does. And I'm not talking about karma.
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