Wolfwalkers (2020)

• Year: 2020
• Released: 13 Nov 2020
• Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, France
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 30 wins & 67 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5198068/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wolfwalkers
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/wolfwalkers
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 720p
• Language: English, Irish Gaelic
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
• Runtime: 103 min
• Writer: Will Collins, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
• Director: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
• Cast: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean
• Keywords: friendship, family, magic, forest, father daughter relationship,

	8.0/10
	87/100
	99% – Critics
	98% – Audience

Wolfwalkers Storyline

Bounding with spirit with her lupine siblings through the impenetrable enchanted forest of 1650 Kilkenny, the young wolf-walker, Mebh, fears that the fragile treaty between humans and her pack is about to be broken. Troubled by her mother’s unaccountable disappearance, and the rapid diminishing of her natural habitat, reluctantly, feral Mebh strikes up a friendship with rebellious, bright-eyed Robyn, unbeknownst to her that her father, Bill Goodfellowe, is a great English wolf-hunter. Now, appointed by the walled city’s fiercely devout, wolf-hating Lord Protector, Bill has two short days to eradicate the wolf menace, and rid the neighbouring woods, the last stronghold of evil, of the savage beasts. But, free-spirited Robyn yearns to be free, and for the first time in a long while, she feels alive. Can she have the best of both worlds?

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Wolfwalkers Movie Reviews

If you loved Song of the Sea, you will like this, too

I started with Song of the Sea, then WolfWalkers. I wish I would have done it in reverse, because I do believe Song of the Sea is the superior movie: the characters more layered, the animation better and more beautiful, the story a bit nicer. Wolfwalkers is kind of the same thing in the sense that the protagonist is a young only child who has to push pass their overbearing father to define themselves as a person. Here the metaphors are more heavy handed, with the ultimate goal being more about gaining freedom than evolving as a person, but you get the beautiful animation, the celtic folklore, the nice Irish music and the hero’s journey.

I noticed other people comparing Tomm Moore’s work with Miyazaki’s and I concur that he kind of goes the same way: stories with a lot of national or traditional motifs, young children as heroes in very natural or magical environments going through a transformative journey that also tells things about us as people. Now I wonder if Breadwinner will be as good or not.

beautiful and wonderous

It’s 1650 Ireland. Robyn Goodfellowe is an English girl living with her widowed father Bill (Sean Bean) in the walled town of Kilkenny. He is a wolf hunter tasked by the Lord Protector to clear out the nearby woods. She is desperate to join him in the hunts but he forbids it. She follows him anyways and encounters a Wolfwalker.

This is wonderous. The story is heart-wrenching. It is beautifully drawn. Its use of Celtic imagery is magnificent. I love the characters. It is near perfection. It did get an Oscar nomination. I love The Secret of Kells and I think I love this slightly more, very slightly.

Gripping, enchanting – well worth a watch.

How utterly refreshing to watch an animation that tells a good, solid, story with strong characterisations and a great vocal cast that is not, necessarily, designed to just maximise box office revenues. It’s a relatively straightforward story of an hunter “Goodfellowe” who, along with his young daughter “Robyn” (Honor Kneafsey) is recruited to hunt down a pack of wolves near the town of Kilkenny, of whom the local populace are terrified. The wolves live in an ancient forest and are having to come to terms with the increased human intervention in their lives, and with their habitat – and when one of their number disappears, the young “Mebh” (Eva Whittaker) makes contact with the young “Robyn” and together, the two try to track down the missing wolf and to find some more peaceful way for humanity and their lupine adversaries to live in peace. The animation is simple, yet sophisticated – building on a rich vein of Celtic mythology and some age-old fears and stereotypes that still exist some 370 years after this enchanting mystery is set. The pace mixes the cerebral and the action, with plenty going on for both eye and brain to appreciate. Even Sean Bean (who’s angularly featured image matches so well his usually wooden acting style) manages to inject some humanity into what is essential a very enjoyable story of live and let live…