Little Door Gods

Hello, everybody, I am reviewing another movie for TIFF Kids. This time, it's a movie from China called Little Door Gods. It comes from a studio called Light Chaser animation and to be honest just from pictures I saw of it I can say I am intrigued. So, I am going to go over the movie and tell you what I thought of it. This  is my review of Little Door Gods.

Characters: The main characters of this movie are two brothers who are also Gods. Shen Tu and Yu Lei. Shen Tu is the main character and I do like him. He's very caring and nice. Yu Lei starts out as one of the two main heroes but eventually turns into the main villain which I thought was interesting. It's also one of the reasons I like him. Then there is Raindrop. She is a little girl from earth who works with her mother at their family's restaurant. Raindrop does fall into some of the cute little kid character cliches but other than that she's fine. There's Raindrops mother and owner of the restaurant Ying. She seems to care a lot about Raindrop and I like that a lot. Then there's the owner of the restaurant across the street from Ying and Raindrop (I can not remember his name. I apologize for that). He's not that interesting. He is basically every other cliched evil businessman character. And lastly, there's Nian the great evil beast. He's sort of every giant evil overlord ever. So not too interesting. There are some other characters like Colossus and the Earth God but I don't have too much to say about them.












Animation: The animation in this movie is pretty good. I like the character designs as each character looks unique. The background designs are a bit generic but I can overlook that. All the action sequences are actually done very well. So overall the animation in this movie is very good and much better than some other animated movies from America that I've seen.

Plot: The story of this movie is that the Door Gods Shen Tu and Yu Lei are facing unemployment as Gods. After hearing the story of a beast called the Nian Yu Lei decides to release it so that he can defeat it and the humans will remember the Gods. Yu Lei leaves to the human world where he has to destroy three seals in order to release the Nian. Shen Tu follows him into the human world. Along the way, Shen Tu befriends Raindrop and even helps out at the restaurant. I don't want to get too far into the plot because of spoilers. Overall I like the plot some bits I had trouble following. Although that probably has something to do with me not being able to read subtitles fast enough rather the plot itself. So overall the plot is pretty solid.


Conclusion: Little Door Gods is a great movie filled with memorable characters, an interesting plot, and great animation. I really don't have too many major complaints about this other than the subtitles go by a bit too fast. But that might just be me. So I do recommend this movie. So, if are in Toronto go see Little Door Gods. Remember, I will be reviewing more of these TIFF movies for the rest of the month. See you all next time.