Usually I am more into anime and tend to be watching them, but variety is the spice of life and so its always a good idea to sometimes dip a toe into more traditional western animation (especially if its an animation of a story from the brilliant Discworld series of books by Sir Terry Pratchett)
The style of the animation is rather old fashioned not quite Disney, more old tv program style animation (which makes sense because the studio who made the animation are also responsible for things such as danger mouse, exactly the sort of style this is) The line quality is very good and the animation itself is quite smooth. The soundtrack is used to create mood, illustrate points and generally do what soundtracks do in most film/animated features.
The mood of the animation as a whole is satirical and light hearted, lots of words play and poking fun at the fantasy conventions and poking fun at Macbeth as well as several lines directly reference Macbeth and it is to do with a man high up in the kings court killing the king driven by his strong willed and aggressively ambitious wife. All the light hearted satire is obviously to be expected though if you have any previous acquaintance with any of Terry Pratchett's other books in the Discworld series.
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