My last entry on Mysterious Cities of Gold has proven to be one of my more popular posts, so I thought it would be appropriate to update the situation.
It appears that the second season of MCoG has been confirmed for an English translation and will be released on DVD by Fabulous Films next year. These are the guys who released the first season over here so I'm sure they will do a good job. :-)
Here is the English language song for the new series:
In related news, there is also a video game in the works! It's currently a France-only project, but a Kickstarter project appeared today asking for funds to put towards translating it into other languages. We'll see in a month's time if was successful or not, but for those interested in finding out more can find it here.
Living up to the title, Terkel
is indeed in trouble.He is bullied
every day at school, has parents who ignore everything he says and has also
started to receive death threats from an anonymous villain.True, he’s still an arsehole to his little sister
and becomes friends with his bullies by becoming one himself, but frankly many kids
of a certain age have that shitty streak about them.You can either be offended by this jaded depiction
of childhood or just go with it.
This is what happens when you
go outside of your safe zone.Wanting to
experience a wider variety in my animation I chanced this Danish offering and
was served this truly bizarre comedy.This
is a CG film that’s starting to show its age with its curiously grotesque character
designs, woeful lip-synching and patchy humour.The original Danish characters were voiced by the same person whereas
the English UK-centric dub uses several.So while it’s fun to hear the likes of Johnny Vegas and Bill Bailey
having fun with the work, there is a fundamentally different approach applied
to each version.No doubt some details
are lost in translation, but the overall mean-spirited tone seems pretty
consistent between the two.
It takes a sizeable chunk of
its 77-minute running time to get your head around Terkel’s dark sense of
humour, and by dark I mean totally-sucks-all-the-goodness-out-of-the-world kind
of dark.I’ll admit I sniggered at the
early pissing scene and the steady stream of schoolyard swearing, but later on I
sat agape at songs making jokes about domestic
violence and another containing the classic line of ‘Piss off and die, for you’re
an ugly twat and your mummy likes to shag horses.’ (yes, there are random songs
dotted throughout the film).It will
offend pretty much everyone, and for a while I honestly did not know how to
take it.After crying for mercy at it
brutality of its worldview I turned off the 40-minute mark, only to return the
next day and finding myself enjoying it a lot more.It was probably the desensitisation to super-bleak
Danish humour, but at least now I can say I enjoyed it even though I am
probably a little more dead inside because of it.
This is definitely a film
that people will either love or loathe.I’m a lover, but would consider very carefully when recommending to
people with any sort of moral compass.
