Urduja

URDUJA, the Tagalog Animated Movie, may be the first “phenomenal” Filipino Animation that we have ever seen…but it is far from being an “all-original Filipino” formula.

The movie is highly anticipated by a lot of Filipinos. We haven’t produced yet a single animated movie that we can be proud of and so we expect Urduja to elevate the Philippine’s movie industry, to at least a few inches higher than where it is right now…that is - galaxies away from the kind of animations that American and Japanese students can make.

I have only seen the trailer on T.V. and I should say the film can pass off as a…well…a ”good enough” Tagalog animated movie.

First off, the figures look as if they’re rip-offs and aggregates of various, notable characters from Pocahontas, Mulan, Jungle Book and Stitch to name a few.

Although the movie was created by Filipino animators, I am not so sure if they can create stuff that is, in a sense, purely Pinoy. It appears that the makers of Urduja were not ready yet to relinquish their fixation with Walt Disney characters. Philippine literature is very rich in history, legends, folklores, fables, epics, tales, myths, and characters which can be found ”only in the Philippines“. Surprisingly enough, you only managed to produce the lowest kind of art: “imitation”. Tsk…tsk..

I do hope that the storyline could compensate for the lousy animation….and somehow…allow the animators to redeem themselves.

Addopted from: http://pipitblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/urduja-a-tagalog-full-length-animated-movie/