Alfonso Quixote, a descendant of Cervantes’ idealistic hero, is on a mission to save his town in this unsatisfying animated adventure
Films of Don Quixote have a notoriously rough time of it. Orson Welles ran out of money making his doomed adaptation. Terry Gilliam’s first stab was such a catastrophe it went down as one of the unluckiest films in screen history. Disney bosses abandoned a version after reportedly deciding it was too adult. The makers of this family animation dodge the age-inappropriate issue with a central character who is Don Quixote’s modern-day descendant: an 11-year-old boy dreamer. Though to be fair, the film shares more DNA with other loud crashy kids’ movies than Cervantes.
Our misguided hero is Alfonso Quixote, the great-great-great-and-then-some grandson of the legendary 17th-century Don. Alphonso is blessed with the family trait of crackpot idealism. He is hated in La Mancha for repeatedly causing...
Films of Don Quixote have a notoriously rough time of it. Orson Welles ran out of money making his doomed adaptation. Terry Gilliam’s first stab was such a catastrophe it went down as one of the unluckiest films in screen history. Disney bosses abandoned a version after reportedly deciding it was too adult. The makers of this family animation dodge the age-inappropriate issue with a central character who is Don Quixote’s modern-day descendant: an 11-year-old boy dreamer. Though to be fair, the film shares more DNA with other loud crashy kids’ movies than Cervantes.
Our misguided hero is Alfonso Quixote, the great-great-great-and-then-some grandson of the legendary 17th-century Don. Alphonso is blessed with the family trait of crackpot idealism. He is hated in La Mancha for repeatedly causing...
- 3/3/2025
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
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