SYNOPSICS
Olentzero y el tronco mágico (2005) is a Spanish,Basque movie. Juanjo Elordi has directed this movie. Irati Aldaz,Angel Alkain,José Ramón Argoitia,Ane Aseguinolaza are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2005. Olentzero y el tronco mágico (2005) is considered one of the best Animation movie in India and around the world.
It is almost Christmas in a small town in the Pyrenees. Olentzero is a charming old man that embodies the spirit of Christmas and distributes gifts to the local children. He has already received the cards from the children in the valley and he is observing their behavior through the "magic log" burning in his chimney to see if they deserve their gifts. An evil business man arrives in the town and persuades the townsfolk to sell him the forest. He claims he will look after the forest but in reality he plans to cut it all down in order to build a ski resort. His henchman steals the "magic log" from Olentzero as well as all the cards, jeopardizing the chances for the children to receive their gifts. Anje, a young orphan, helps Olentzero to put things right. With the assistance of the other children in the village, they experience adventures and hazards until normality is restored in the valley and Christmas is duly celebrated.
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Olentzero y el tronco mágico (2005) Reviews
Avoid unless very desperate
Avoid, avoid, avoid. I have just sat through 40 minutes of a very badly English dubbed version of this story. I couldn't bear to finish it. I can't say if the English translation is good or not but the dialogue is dreadful, plus we have a poor song. This is beside the fact the animation style is horrible. Olentzero is Father Christmas by any other name, with a donkey for a sidekick instead of reindeer. There's a preposterous story of a stolen wooden log, the destruction of a village's forest to make way for a ski resort and a runaway orphan. This wouldn't hold the interest of children for more than a few minutes at best.