Shangoul & Mangoul (2000)
A big bad wolf terrorizes some little goats by entering their home when their mother is away. He swallows two of them but they are saved with some help from their family.
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Too much of everything
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
The acting in this movie is really good.
Nice opening and closing 3-dimensional effect zooming into (and out of, at the end) an elaborately embroidered tapestry having the characters of the story - mother goat and 3 kids, fox, snake, bird, and personality-imbued sun, cloud, and magic carpet - and their environment colorfully depicted.Some nice whimsical touches - the sun tickles a cloud to get rain, and throws little fireballs at the fox when he's trying to enter the goat's house through the roof - and the cloud quickly rains on the roof when it catches on fire. In the face-off between the mother goat and the wolf, she burnishes her horns while he is flossing his teeth immediately before the conflict.Both the wolf and the egg-stealing snake get their comeuppance at the end and tranquility is regained.Whatever the origin of fables/fairy tales, there are common threads in both Iranian and American tales - and anyone from any culture could be easily involved in the story told here.