Sahara

2017 [FRENCH]

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Romance

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 48%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 3367 3.4K

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Plot summary

A young cobra and his scorpion best friend go on a journey across the Sahara desert to save a new-found love.

Director

Pierre Coré Photo
Pierre Coré

Top cast

Mark Camacho Photo
Mark Camacho as Father Scorpion
Omar Sy Photo
Omar Sy as Ajar
Michaël Youn Photo
Michaël Youn as Poisson des Sables
Franck Gastambide Photo
Franck Gastambide as Pitt
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
777.16 MB
1280*534
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds ...
1.56 GB
1920*800
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by benm-41751 6 / 10

Sahara is visually beautiful but otherwise inconsistent

The first thing one notices about Sahara is that it's visually stunning, with an art style that looks high-budget yet sets itself apart from the average CGI flick. Coupled with decent sound design, the film has good production values on the surface.Unfortunately, the script, storyboarding, and directing fluctuate between decent and cringe-worthy. Sometimes the action can be involving and the humor genuinely funny. But at other times it can be derivative or just plain awkward. The snakes in the film sometimes talk like humans (for example referencing Batman), which at those moments makes the film feel very cheap. Other times they actually steal jokes from other places. Some moments the film just feels clumsy like a demo reel. For example, I almost dozed off during the "climax" of the movie because the action was kind of confusing.Unfortunately, the writers and directors of the movie missed an opportunity to capitalize on the great production values with a solid script. It felt like someone whipped up the dialogue and refused to have it reviewed by anyone else. That said, it's not a bad movie. It's worth watching if only for the nice animation, and it shows that there is potential for new players in the CGI realm (who aren't from Pixar, Disney, or Dreamworks) to make something great-if they just step it up a little bit more.
Reviewed by Lasagna_Kob 4 / 10

Felt generic and underwhelming

It's about a snake who decides to leave his home, falls in love with a snake from an oasis, is forced to rescue her with her stoner brother, and defeat the incredibly generic villain you probably can't appreciate.What did it get right? It looks pretty good, and the humor is adult-friendly. (Yeah, I'm the kinda guy that laughs at a snake snort sand because he's in withdrawal)What did it get wrong? Pretty much everything else in the movie. The characters aren't memorable in the slightest, as they have no back stories or motive, and most of them are simply abandoned after "they had nothing else to offer". Similarly, I'd like to know the main characters better, as the only back story we ever got was from a secondary/support character and the only thing explained were that his parents were killed and he escaped. I'd also like to better know how the other snakes were captured, but no, we just get an ugly "love interest" and a salty character that gets skinned later on. The climax battle scene was dramatic and I had no idea what was happening other than a creepy old dude is able to climb really well, then dies, only to reappear solely for the purpose of a semi-humorous reintroduction of Pitt. (EDIT: I watched it again, and the other snake didn't get skinned, I just missed their reappearance at the end of the movie)Writing is 1/5 Graphics is 5/5 Humor is 3/5 (i'm being generous, that was a pretty funny scene)
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