How to Save the Immortal
For some reason, forever young and always immaculately dressed, Koschey has been unable to find a bride for three hundred years. He intimidated, and kidnapped, and turned various princesses into frogs, but these courtship did not help the prince of darkness. Meanwhile, the beautiful hero Varvara only does what she fights off in the arena from suitors who covet her dowry. However, having taken possession of the Koshcheev needle, Tsar Peas figure out how to get to Varvara. But he didn’t take into account one thing - although Koshchei’s death is enclosed in a needle, love can still come to life in his heart
CinemaSerf@Geronimo1967
"Drybones" and his family of bats live in his rather menacing looking castle where the poor chap is struggling to find a bride. It possibly doesn't help that he has the reputation of turning those who reject his love into frogs! Meantime, the sorceress "Mara" has her eyes on him, and she knows the secret of his immortality. He has a week to decide whether he is to be her's forever or instead face his doom (and probably still end up as her plaything!). In the neighbouring kingdom, the scheming but pretty hapless king "Gorokh" - aided by his rather malevolent puppet "Punch" - is trying to get his hands on the fortune of the feisty "Varvara" so he can take over the world. With both characters in a bit of a predicament, can they join forces to save each other from fates worse than death - and who knows, maybe even fall in love? It's actually quite a fun little animation this. It takes it's inspiration from vampiric myth with lots of action, a soupçon of "Camelot" and even features his goblin-esque helpers "Bram" and "Stoker" to help it pass effortlessly, if completely forgettably, for seventy-five minutes. It sort of falls between two stools - the kids in the cinema when I saw it were unimpressed and the adults have seen it all before. Still, it's not terrible and it offers a gently entertaining family horror story that will do fine as Christmas television fodder.