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Lars, the little polar bear, travels to exotic places, including
a harbour city, the Tiger Forest and Colour Island. Along
the way Lars finds new friends including Nemo the seafaring
cat and Theo the little tiger. Follow Lars and his friends
on their incredible journeys...
Lars
and the Little Tiger is
marketed as a feature length animated movie. In actuality
it is three shorter adventures that are stitched together
- a fact that is so obvious it makes me wonder why they didn't
just run them as three separate stories.
The
first third of this DVD sees Lars get caught in the net of
a large trawling ship. Once onboard ship, he befriends the
ship's cat, Nemo, who promises to show Lars the sights of
his home town when they dock. Meanwhile Robby the little seal,
who saw Lars captured by the fishing net, follows the trawler
thanks to a surprisingly helpful (seals are one of the main
food sources for killer whales in the real world) killer whale
called Orca. Robby meets up with Lars and then the two return
home.
In
the second adventure, Lars goes to investigate a train that
has stopped near his home. Once inside one of the goods wagons
he discovers a little tiger called Theo. Theo explains to
Lars how he has come from Tiger Forest by mistake - he jumped
inside the train when it stopped there. Then the train starts
up again, and both Lars and Theo are on the move. They eventually
pluck up the courage to jump from the moving train and then
set off for Tiger Island. In the meantime, Lars's father is
on their trail. Lars and Theo finally make it back to Tiger
Island and discover that both of their fathers have already
met, while both out looking for their offspring.
The
final story sees Lars's parents getting tired of the little
polar bear's stories about Colour Island. But when a beautiful
butterfly arrives they start to wonder whether Lars wasn't
telling the truth all along. Lars's dad decides that he and
his son will get on an iceberg and travel to Colour Island
to see if it exists.
Now,
here comes the anorak in me... but I couldn't quite fathom
why the DVD producers had ordered the stories in this way.
Surely the Colour Island story should have been the first
tale - as Lars's father has already travelled to Tiger Forest
in the previous story, why would he not believe that there
is a place out there where the landscape is not all white?
Even the youngest of viewers will spot this continuity error.
Extras
include a two minute interview with the scary looking sound
effects creator, Helmut Kowanda, and a seven minute look at
how some of the animators draw their characters. While these
are both interesting they don't seem to be very well thought
out, and both features stop suddenly.
As
this release is aimed at the very young it's very hard to
find fault with it. It tells three heart-warming, if somewhat
similar (Lars leaves his home to visit a foreign land, and
gets home before tea time) tales. The animation is above average,
and the stories are just short enough that small minds won't
start to get restless.
An
above average release that will keep small children entertained.
Amber
Leigh
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