Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World

I would have appreciated this movie more if they have taken 2 sides of the story, read both histories and learn who is the real enemy...

The animation looks like this was made in the early 2000s and that's putting it mildly.

Magalhães was a Portuguese Sailor/Navigator, not a colonizer like some people say here. He made the trip, the arrangements and everything even diying in the process to finish the travel. not this spanish guy. No one knows El Cano, what spain trying to make here its to taint the image of a great explorer of the world, and one of the ilustrous Portuguese Sailors of all history, And again he was not a colonizer like some people say here. he was a traveller, trying to discover new routes for comerce. Read something about history please,

Magellan is no hero. He's a colonizer. A lot of blood was shed and innocent lives lost. Why make a movie about colonizers?

Who's gonna watch this? White supremacists?

This fast-paced, 1.5 hour, animated film is fictionalized history meant for Spanish kids. The plot is for the fleet to sail west, past the Americas, get spices from the Moluccas, and sail back to Spain, all while avoiding the Portuguese. The portion that Filipino reviewers (who haven't even seen this movie) complain about lasts for about 5-7 minutes, when the protagonists make a brief stop in Cebu and Mactan islands. Lapu-lapu, the Mactan chief, appears for a few seconds and is a brave, muscular guy, as opposed to the corpulent Humabon, the king of Cebu. The battle of Mactan lasts for about a minute. There is nothing about "colonization" in this film. It is all about survival and discovery in the first circumnavigation of the world. Oh, and by the way, I am also Filipino.