Non-historical

Rating: 4/10 (21 March 2014)

The people of the original tale were not Christians yet, so why are they being portrayed as wearing crosses and uttering Bible verses? Perhaps that was the fault of the original English writer of this fictional tale, but it's non-historical. It would have been nice if the movie actually reflected the history of early 6th century Sweden or anywhere in Scandinavia. The animation is beautiful and the acting good, but otherwise it doesn't even follow the original writer's plot line! The live-action version with Christopher Lambert is actually better. This is a long movie so watching it on a TV channel with commercials makes it 3.5 hrs long, so forget it as too frustrating to watch on anything but a disc or thru netflix. I gave this a 4 for the beauty of the animation alone.