Every moment that Walter Huston wasn't on screen I was saying to my friends "I hope Walter Huston comes back soon."

I have never watched a Kirikou film I didn't enjoy—they are charming and funny without fail. This installment (like KIRIKOU AND THE WILD BEASTS) is set in the middle of KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS and lets its pint-sized hero prove himself to the village ever more thoroughly. The new stories even gave the fearsome sorceress Karaba room for some more poignant moments. This film *does* suffer ever so slightly by using computer animation rather than traditional hand-drawn—which sometimes turns the village and wilderness around it into shiny plastic toys rather than the organic landscapes of the previous two films.

Really, really, REALLY hated that puppet.

The song of the bowerbird was one of the most amazing things I've seen all year. I might have watched three hours of that alone.