Goat Story

Goat Story - The Old Prague Legends (Czech: Kozí příběh - pověsti staré Prahy) is a 2008/2010 Czech 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy film produced and directed by Jan Tománek, and written by Tománek with David Sláma. The first Czech-produced feature-length computer-animated film features animation by Art And Animation studio and was released May 19, 2010 in the United States.

The film features the voice performances of Jiří Lábus, Matěj Hádek, Mahulena Bočanová, Michal Dlouhý, Petr Pelzer, Jan Přeučil, Viktor Preiss, Miroslav Táborský, Karel Heřmánek, Petr Nárožný, Dalimil Klapka, Pavel Rímský, Ota Jirák, Filip Jevič and Justin Svoboda. Produced over the course of five years on a $1.8 million budget, and only about ten animators and 3D graphic designers worked on it.

Goat Story was theatrically released on October 16, 2008 by Bontonfilm on May 19, 2010. It won the main prize at the 2010 Buenos Aires International Children's Film Festival, and received nominations at other film festivals. A sequel, Goat Story 2, was released in 2012.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Insanely confusing story, it's almost impossible for you to understand what's going on in a wide variety of scenes.
 * 2) The animation is pretty weird, although the characters' movements are decent.
 * 3) The character designs are just terrible and ugly, literally, they all easily pass into Uncanny Valley, even if it was done intentionally.
 * 4) The color palette is very ugly and dull, almost the whole background looks bad colored, which luckily was changed in the second movie.
 * 5) The pacing is also very bad and somehow makes the movie even more confusing.
 * 6) There are LOTS of nudity, disturbing, and disgusting scenes, making the movie feel more like an adult movie than a children's movie.
 * 7) *There's also some racist Chinese stereotypes and implications of Goat wanting Jemmy to commit zoophilia with her.
 * 8) The ending is very mediocre, it just ends with Goat, Jemmy, and Katy happily leaving town at sunset.
 * 9) None of the "villains" in the movie, like Matthew's friends or the mayor, received punishment for everything they did, except in the credits where they are seen trapped in cages.
 * 10) There this really annoying running gag where the people of Prague keep mistaken Goat as different species of animals. Including a horse, a sheep, a donkey, and even a moose and cat (have these people have not seen a goat before?).
 * 11) The main trio of the characters are unlikable and one dimensional, with Jemmy being a complete horndog for Katy, Goat being unfunny and gross, and Katy whose nothing more than a bimbo airhead.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Matthew and Master Hanus are nice characters.
 * 2) As said before, the movement of the characters is decent and is one of the few good things about animation.
 * 3) For a low-budget movie, the amount of movement present in the background of each scene can be surprising.

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Trivia

 * Goat Story is the most successful Czech animated film in history.
 * In the scene where Jemmy is carving Katy into wood, he was supposed to accidentally carve three breasts. The animators left this in as a joke but the director was furious and had them reanimate the entire scene again in a rush, resulting in dropped frames.
 * Some of the visual jokes reference Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away.
 * This is the first Czech feature-length computer-animated film.