A Donkey's Tale

source: Donkey X

Trailer—Donkey Xote

Donkey Xote

My son really likes this movie, probably because of the animals and because there is a lot of action, there is always something different happening, few scenes have dialogue only. My son is more interested in this movie than in other animated movies, including lots of Pixar animations. I didn't like this movie at first, but after having seen it about 20 times now I started to enjoy it. It is true that the plot isn't easy to follow, it is unusual in many aspects, but for some reason the movie gets better every time you see it. For people with young children, who watch a movie over and over, that is a must!

Obscene and vulgar film at times, and, although faithful to a large extent to the original work, it does not entertain it for long due to its narrative confusion.

Yes, it is a children's movie, but to be honest I LOVED it. My 5-year-old sister and I watched it and it was honestly quite entertaining. It was sort of Shrek-meets-The Tale of Desperaux. It is a little bit cheesy, and the animation was different, but I liked it. It was appropriate (they don't really cater to the adult viewers I mean, they assume you will enjoy the parody of the true story Don Quixote and that will be enough). This being said, it may not be as enjoyable if you are unfamiliar with the story, dislike children's animations, or are looking for some kind of slapstick humor. I would also say that I think the best age group for this would be grade school children, as my sister did get bored around the middle.

First of all, it IS a good entertainment! The characters are lovable, the jokes and gigs are really funny. And this movie needs some education to understand and enjoy it. It is full of references to literature, and squeeze the other "big" films out totally. Nevertheless, it is true, it has some flops. The music score -except the symphonic parts- are really disturbing, nothing to do with the story... Also, it tries to compete with high-budget US movies, in style, attitude, and so on. And this is a failure. It could have been a really nice, and meaningful, funny and entertaining NOT Hollywood movie. I never understood, why it is necessary to force jokes or fake funny parts into every movie, not to take anything seriously... However, despite these, it is still enjoyable, and entertaining. And there are interesting twists...:) So, to sum up, it is great for older children, or never grown up adults...:)

After watching many of Hollywood's production. I came to conclusion that many of their movies are a crap. I didn't expect to much from this animation movie, but it's surprisingly good. Although it is a Spanish production I managed to obtain an English synchronized version. This is an old story of Don Quiote pictured on an unusually funny way. If you are full of Hollywood's crap give it a chance, you can't mistake. I know what i like when i see it. Many times I saw some bad comment's and thought i"It's a bad movie", but to some of them I gave a chance and saw that these comments are very subjective nature. As I don't have to much to say and I have to had some 10 lines (admins might reconsider to change that rule), I am no allowed to publish this comment. OK, maybr it's time to set up some alternative to IMDb, something like Wikipedia, but only for movies.

I paid US$3 for the DVD and it was too much! Here what is bad about it: (1) The 3-D animation is very fine in certain scenes and very coarse in others (probably the movie was done by different groups/companies). (2)The main character looks suspiciously like a blue-eyed version of "Donkey" from Shrek (they even make a reference to Shrek at the beginning of the movie). (3) Most of the music was not composed for the movie, they just recycled some oldies. Bottom Line: If I had seen this movie on Netflix at no cost other than my regular membership fee I would still have felt disappointed.

I've just seen the English dubbed Spanish DVD. With Pixar raising the bar and Disney and others raising their game to produce high quality animated movies with great stories it is hard to comprehend how this got made. The animation is fine but the story ... oh dear. Set some time after the well known story of Don Quixote this follows the same group as they try to find Dulcinea but the story is told from the point of view of their steeds - a brave donkey and a cowardly horse. Was this only made with Government/European Union taxpayer subsidies to help the Spanish film industry (a 'europudding')? I suspect so as the number of logos appearing in the credits is amazing. If you are a fan of Don Quixote you won't like this - If you aren't a fan you still won't like this!