![]() Disney Villain Death: Sedessa, falling when the ledge cracks after Delgo saves her.Damsel in Distress: Kyla is captured by Sedessa so that she can sever her wings and set up another war with the Lockni and Nohrin.Constructed World: If nothing else, the effort that went into constructing the setting is impressive.And when one character gets stabbed and pulls out the knife/arrow/whatever it was, it is pretty darn clean. You have to wonder why they gave characters sharp weapons at all. Most weapons are blunt, most hits scored are with "blasting" powers, and stabbings or impalings occur just off screen. Bloodless Carnage: All over the place. ![]() His motivation for siding with Sedessa (outside of apparently being in love with her) is that the truce between the Lockni and the Nohrin prevents him and his soldiers from experiencing the thrill of battle. It's up to Delgo, the telekinetic son of one of Sedessa's victims, and a cast of colorful side characters to stop her. Sedessa is exiled but returns fifteen years later, bent on conquest and with an army of ogre-like monsters called Ando backing her up. The Lockni immediately regret this decision when a power-hungry Nohrin named Sedessa ( Anne Bancroft in her last performance) tries to enslave them. The story is set in the land of Jhamora, where a group of lizard-people called the Lockni allow a group of displaced dragonfly-people called the Nohrin to settle on their lands. Until The Oogieloves came along, this film held the dubious honor of the worst wide-release opening in movie history : it was released in more than 2000 theaters and earned less than a million dollars in its first and only week. A 2008 animated fantasy film, Delgo is the brainchild of Marc Adler, a technology wunderkind who managed to build his own Atlanta studio and scrape together a $40 million budget from well outside the Hollywood system.
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