D'Artacán y los tres Mosqueperros

First off I've no idea who is giving this film high scores but their reviews seem to indicate they've not actually seen the film.

We have regular 'cinema nights' with the kids (6 and 10) and when Dogtanian came up on Sky Cinema I thought it would be right down our street as I loved the animation as a child.

First off, this film is 1hr45 long, longer than Frozen yet or needed a good 45-50 mins shaved off as it has so many pointless bits which don't add anything other than boring bulk.

The voice acting is awful, you can literally feel the actors struggling to read the script, adding pauses in strange places and mispronouncing words. The story is over complicated for children, quite boring and dull. There's a fart joke 5 minutes in and I'd argue that it was the peak of the film.

The animation is awful, so low budget, it's clear they spent all the money on the rights to a beloved cartoon and had little left. It looks like it was made on an old movie maker package on a 20 year old PC. There are two camera angles and that's your lot. It looks horrible (though the line art 'flashback' was nice and served only to show how rubbish the rest of the film was). It was so poor it distracted from what plot there was.

We turned the film off before the end, I have to admit it. I'm SO disappointed my favourite cartoon as a child has become this. The kids were FINE with us turning it off which I think says it all.

Save your time and watch the old cartoons on YouTube or just watch a different film altogether.

In 17th century France, young D'Artacan (or Dogtanian) travels to Paris to fulfill his ambition to become one of the King's Musketeers. He befriends Athos, Porthos and Aramis and falls in love with Juliette. Stars hot-headed D'Artacan (D'Artagnan) in a brave role as a young and handsome dog of fortune, a dashing , audacious lover and nimble athlete. D'Artacan and the three musketeers or muskehounds must defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war. This delightful adaptation based on Alexandre Dumas classic novel starts with the youngster D'Artacan who arrives in Paris to find Mister Treville , chief of Musketeers. But he meets with three two-fisted Musketeers , rollicking adventurers , fighting to live and living to love and they dared a thousand perils. Fearing that D'Artacán reports the king, Richelieu orders Rochefort and his particular guards to kill him, making that D'Artacán, Amis, Dogos and Ponthos leave his misunderstanding behind to fight together. D'Artacan to be aware they are Musketeers and is invited to unite them in their objective to struggle against guards of Cardinal Richelieu, Rochefort and the astute Milady De Winter who is lovely as a jewel, deadly as a dagger the wickedest woman in all Christendom . Meanwhile, D'Artacan falls in love with a gorgeous young, Juliette, she is a golden-haired beauty entangled in a web of treachery and intrigue. Furthermore , there is developed an intrigue between Luis XIII, Queen Anne of Austria, Duke of Buckingha ; and of course, the nasty Richelieu, as evil as ever . The musketeers join forces for royal vengeance with the shout : ¨One for all and all for one¨

The Dog Knight(2021) professionally directed by Toni Garcia, Stephen Hughes results to be a slight an likeable retelling about the durable Alexandre Dumas's novel. An amusing and colorful adaptation set in Paris, circa 1625, a brave puppy helps three sword dogs in their fight against the king's enemies while falling in love with Julietta. So they have to recover a valuable necklace that the evil Milady de Winter has stolen. And they join forces to avoid a plan about topple Luis XIII as part of powerful and cruel Cardinal Richelieu's masterplan to unleash the war against England. The 3D animation is good but it's nothing special. A vein of humour is evident here, especialy bit the mouseThe troublesome mouse that always accompanies Dartacan who usually helps or betrays him . Here the comic and ironic tones are increased, though sometimes falling flat. For this movie itself , though , energetic and frantic are the best adjectives you could think of to describe its attraction. The characters are more cuddly than daring, as they were in the books. D'Artacan is still feisty and headstrong but as this is a children's cartoon they had to remove his amourous nature. The characters more or less follow the traditional cannon, adapted a thousand times to the big screen and television.

This classy story is adapted on several versions , firstly take on about this classic is the following : 1921 silent version by Fred Niblo with Douglas Fairbanks and going on the 1935 adaptation by Rowland V Lee with Walter Abel and Paul Lukas ; 1973 amusing version by Richard Lester with Michael York, Oliver Reed , Raquel Welch and Charlton Heston as Richelieu ; The Three Musketeers (1993) by Stephen Herek with Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt ; 2001 rendition by Peter Hyams with Justin Chambers, Mena Suvari and Tim Roth. And , of course, the classic series in animated cartoon: D'Artacan y los tres mosqueperros (26 episodes, 1981-1982).

It must be difficult to remake something for the modern age something that was produced 40 years ago with the common techniques, styles of the times and for the typical audience. The world has moved on, the risk is to make something new for the modern audience that the older audience will hate. This film has done a remake but with a nods to the classic. The 1980's version was a version the classic Dumas story made child friendly at the time, and this it what they have done again for a more modern audience. If you are a fan of the original look out for the dream sequences and watch all the credits at the end there will be things very familiar. If you are too young to remember the original take your kids for a treat and hopefully it will get them into reading books, as that was the effect it had on my back in the 1980's last time round.

Lets hope that Apolo films get funding for remaking some of the other BRB classics.

I have fond memories of the animated TV series "Dogtanian", which was dubbed into Portuguese in my country, and which I remember as being one of my favorite cartoons when I was a child, and one of the best before the "anime" invasion from Japan. Of course, digital animation has replaced the classic authenticity of old-school animation, which I partly regret.

The film harmonizes well two difficult-to-reconcile terrains: the original animation from the 90s, which had its own original stories, and the plot that Dumas wrote in "The Three Musketeers" more than a century ago. The credit goes to the screenwriter, Doug Langdale, who wanted to take advantage of the original story by applying it to the characters from the cartoon, thus creating a film that would easily please fans of the cartoon and those who enjoyed the original book.

There's not much to say about the technical quality of the cartoon, which uses decent CGI for animations. I haven't heard the original version, but the version that was dubbed into Portuguese from Portugal, so I can't evaluate the original voices. The version I heard is enjoyable and does full justice to the original animations. I think I recognized José Raposo's voice and Vasco Palmeirim's voice, but I could be wrong.

I took my kids to see this at the cinema, having never seen the original. The animation quality was poor especially considering it was shown in the cinema. The language they used to tell the story went straight over my kids' heads so it was difficult for them to follow and most of the characters lacked personality. We were all utterly bored and glad when it was over.