The Magic Voyage
| The Magic Voyage (The Adventures of Pico and Columbus) |
|
|---|---|
DVD cover
|
|
| Directed by | Michael Schoemann |
| Produced by | Michael Schoemann |
| Written by | Klaus Birk Jörg Grünler |
| Screenplay by |
English adaptation: Scott Santoro David T. Reilly |
| Story by | Ute Schoemann-Koll |
| Starring | see cast |
| Narrated by |
Hans Paetsch (German) David Kehoe (First English Dub) Mickey Rooney (Second English Dub) |
| Music by |
Harald Kloser Thomas Schobel |
| Edited by | Karl Fugunt Jean-Claude Piroué Angelika Deumling Günter Kujat Cornelia Steinbrenner |
|
Production
company |
|
| Distributed by | Atlas Film (Germany) Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (UK) Hemdale Picture Corporation (USA) |
|
Release date
|
April 9, 1992 Germany/UK December 3, 1993 USA/CAN |
|
Running time
|
82 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language |
German English |
| Budget | $14,500,000 (estimated) |
The Magic Voyage is a 1992 German animated fantasy film, released theatrically in Germany as Die Abenteuer von Pico und Columbus (English: The Adventures of Pico and Columbus) by Bavaria Film on 9 April 1992. The film was later dubbed in English and released in the United States and Canada. Two English dubs were actually produced. The first one was a rare English dub produced by Atlas Film, while the second English dub was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation as The Magic Voyage on 3 December 1993 with a new and more well-known voice cast. The latter dub had a different music soundtrack and both English dubs had different translations. It was produced and directed by Michael Schoemann. The film was widely panned by critics and audiences, being criticized for its poor animation quality, fairy tale plot, nonsense voice acting, and poorly written script.
The year is 1492. Many people believed that the world was flat, and that ships would fall off the edge of the earth and float off into space. However, an Italian navigator named Christopher Columbus had a revolutionary idea — he thought that the world was square. That is, until a small woodworm named Pico overhears him and convinces Columbus that the world is really round by eating up the edges of his square globe, making it look round. Finally realizing that the world is round, Columbus decides to take his discovery to King Ferdinand and his wife Queen Isabella. Pico joins him, and the duo instantly become friends.
As Columbus shows the King that the world is round and not flat, the King is outraged by this theory and has his guards throw Columbus out. But before they even get his hands on him, Isabella barges in and is instantly love-struck by Columbus. Columbus explains his voyage that will prove his newly discovered theory to Isabella, and she decides to finance Columbus' voyage to prove that the world is round. The King agrees to do this as well, but he tells Columbus that if he does not return with gold, he will be executed. As the three have a feast that night, Pico decides to leave them and snoop around the castle. He climbs a large tower and hops across from the window onto a chandelier, where he meets Marilyn, the fairy princess of a faraway land. All was well with her land until the evil Swarm Lord took her away and keeps her prisoner inside the chandelier until she tells him the secret of her powers, which do not work on the forces of evil. Pico and Marilyn try to escape, but the Swarm Lord returns and takes Marilyn away to his lair in the still-undiscovered new world of America. As the Swarm Lord flies away, Pico determines to get Marilyn back.
...
Wikipedia