As the princess prefers being a doctor, to well, a princess prancing around, it is a film every girl and boy should see. Donaldson has written it into the text – the learning-to-roar sequence, Zog sitting in the naughty corner, facing the only remaining wall of a ruin – but there is an added layer of humour in the animated version, a very enjoyable slapstick-style comedy – Zog flying into a tree, his face dropping, his high-pitched scream, etc.Īs you would expect from Donaldson, the moral compass of the story points north, towards a better future. It certainly made this adult laugh out loud. They impressed with Revolting Rhymes, and they carry on the tradition with Zog.įirst off, the film is incredibly funny. I was even more thrilled when I heard a local boykie, Daniel Snaddon, was co-directing, and that the Oscar-nominated Cape Town-based studio, Triggerfish, was doing the animation.
I have also read a few children’s books over the last ten years, all in an attempt to get the critters to go to sleep.Īs my half-dozen loved the animated versions of the Gruffalo books and Revolting Rhymes, I was thrilled to hear that the Julia Donaldson book, Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, was being turned into an animated film. I can recite paragraphs of dialogue from Cars and Madagascar. With six godchildren, aged four to ten, in my life, I have spent a fair amount of screen-time watching (and re-watching and re-watching) animated films. A keen but accident-prone dragon learns how to become a dragon at Dragon School.
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