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Zac Snyders animated Norse series Twilight of the Gods is ONE THOUSAND PERCENT pure, unfiltered, Snyder. So you will already know if this is for you or not. I, naturally, dig the crap out of it, as I'd say this is far more 300 Snyder than Army of the Dead Snyder. It's violent, gory, borderline pornographic, has all the touches of modernity you'd expect and then runs them all through a filter of pure testosterone. Just keep the kiddoes FAR away lest you want them seeing Thor getting a casual blowjob from a sea witch right after he blasts a group of fleeing children into oblivion

That sounds disappointing, to be honest. I’d love a decent Norse mythology series

n815e wrote: That sounds disappointing, to be honest. I’d love a decent Norse mythology series

This ain't that. It's not an animated version of Neil Gaimans "Norse Mythology" comic, for example. It's much more of a revenge adventure tale that borrows heavily from Norse myth when it wants to. It has a very interesting depiction of Loki, for example, that digs deep to bring up some of the weird stuff around him that far more superficial treatments (like the MCU) overlook. But it isn't following any tale specifically though it does weave in a few as stories. It's sorta like that Zeus show, also on netflix, more of a Percy Jackson level take on a mythos than a serious one.

It's quite female fronted as well, there is a scene where every woman leaves their man asleep (post-coital for most of them) to go off to fight because the implication is that the men are kinda drags on them or divide their attention because the women have to worry about keeping them safe. It's an interesting reversal of COUNTLESS scenes of men slipping out of bed or leaving their women at the doorway (often with a few kids hiding behind skirts) but it's sorta at odds with how these characters are shown in battle because they are CLEARLY nigh unstoppable as a team.

Still, it's a rollicking good adventure, even when it feels more like a fever dream than a coherent story. Even the slo-mo is better used here. The steady hand of Jay Oliva (who helped Snyder make Man of Steel) is very apparent as he knows animation like few others. It ends with a cliff hanger and I hope there is more.

The art aesthetic will be divisive. It feels kinda like the The Book of Kells movie to me, stylized and minimalist (no where near as lush as TBoK though, which is just a joy to watch), but very evocative of the period. Frame rate, like a lot of modern animation, is low but it gets the job done. For all the nudity its mostly presented as plainly as possible, not a lot of breast jiggle or wang flopping animations. The dialogue can be brutal though, the line "I'm gonna widen your woman's gash" does a good job making you hate the bad guy, not that the audience needs a lot of incentive. You can just hear the guys giggling in the writers room at a lot of the lines, but somehow it works.