Guardian of the Highlands

This has got to be the worst film I've ever seen. The animation is difficult to look at. The characters are rather creepy (why exactly does the goat wear clothes and talk??). And the story, what there is of it, makes little to no sense.

This movie fricken suck so bad that's all you need to know

I created an account just to review this. I am convinced that I died pressing play on this movie and the whole thing was the hell that awaited me in the afterlife. I have no clue why some people painfully subject themselves to this. This movie has a non-sensical plot, boring characters and absolutely horrendous visuals. I'm convinced that 70% of the budget was on Sean Connery, 1% for the animation and 29% crack for the production team. 0/10 would not recommend.

Firstly, the character design in this film is abysmal; every character is hard to look at it. Secondly, the whole concept is quite strange, and frankly pretty sinister - animals and humans live side-by-side and can talk with each other, yet cows are still milked, certain animals are threatened with extermination, etc... Beyond that the whole thing is very strange, the main character is apparently a retired vet, but also has been knighted? There's a policeman obsessed with catching a beaver? There's a duck who flies a plane?

The storyline veers from repititce and predictable to bizarre and inexplicable, and the jokes and stereotypes feel dated at best, and for a kids film, there are some weirdly sexual, and quite frankly offensively sexist moments with female characters.

I don't know who funded this but I feel bad for them.

Avoid.

I'm a huge fan of James Bond fan and Sir Sean Connery (RIP), so it was very disappointing to know that this was his final film before he passed away. Why he ever signed on for this is beyond me. It was one of the worst computer-animated films I've ever seen. And given the sheer amount of sex appeal, profanity, and disturbing visuals, it wasn't appropriate for kids at all.

The film takes place in Scotland where humans and anthropomorphic animals co-exist. And for some inexplicable reason, Beavers are illegal. Sir William "Billi" Sedgewick (Sean Connery) is a veterinarian who lives om the town of Catterness, Scotland with a goat named Gordon (Alan Cumming). After a truck full of Beavers being forcibly relocated to Norway crashes, releasing the animals, an animal hating cop named McKenzie (Ford Kiernan) begins to hunt them down. Now Billi and his friends must band together to save the day. That's about all I bothered to gather from what I could bear to watch.

The story is so sloppy and difficult to follow, you'll probably get a headache trying to figure it out. The animation and scenery are terrible, only a step above "FoodFight!" released the same year. The colors tended to look muddy and dull, and all of the textures were either grainy or plain. The character models, both human and animal, all had ugly or strange looking designs. The animal characters were the worst with their uncanny faces that make them look more like mutants than real wildlife. Even Sir Billi wasn't so easy on the eyes himself.

The voice acting and dialogue is as bad as the animation. Connery himself, who was in his 80s during production, sounded worn out as he murmured his lines as if from his own bedroom in his pajamas right after waking up. Everyone else sounded no better and the child actors were outright annoying with their constant ear-piercing screams.

Overall, this was a horrible sendoff for Sean Connery, who should have retired for good after "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" which was a mediocre film unto itself, but still much better than this hot mess and at least it was a commercial success. Instead, his career ended on a very bitter note that he didn't deserve.