"Light Overcomes the Dark"

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RIVERDANCE is an upbeat adventure, set on St. Patrick’s day with lively music and dancing. Regrettably, it focuses on the Celtic folklore surrounding Riverdance instead of Ireland’s rich Christian history. The movie stresses that the dancing celebrates the river, which creates and sustains life. It has a pagan, occult worldview where the King of the magical Irish Elk keeps the river’s water running. RIVERDANCE does have some morally uplifting, redeeming elements, however. It stresses how to handle loss, sacrificial love, friendship, and the power of light to overcome darkness. RIVERDANCE is excessive but not abhorrent.
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RIVERDANCE: THE ANIMATED ADVENTURE is a celebration of the Irish Riverdance celebration, in a story about an Irish boy and a Spanish girl who journey into a mythical world where magical elks teach the children the meaning of Riverdance and how to celebrate life through dance. RIVERDANCE is an upbeat adventure, set on St. Patrick’s day with lively music and dancing and some moral, redemptive content extolling sacrificial love, courage and light overcoming darkness, but the movie has a pagan, occult worldview where the King of the magical Irish Elk keeps the water in the river running to create and sustain life.
The story in RIVERDANCE follows the life of a young Irish boy named Keegan who lives with his grandparents on the coast of Ireland. His grandfather is a lighthouse keeper who teaches Keegan everything he knows.
Aside from his grandfather’s skill as a dancer and a hurler, he also tells Keegan about the importance of keeping the lighthouse lit so that evil, dark huntsman can’t reach the land and kill the Irish Elk who keep the rivers flowing.
Keegan is skeptical of the stories but loves his grandparents. One day, his grandfather dies of old age, and it becomes his responsibility to care for the lighthouse. Keegan doesn’t believe in his grandfather’s stories, however, and doesn’t want to take on the mantle.
His best friend, Moya, is from Spain but is skilled in Riverdance. After his grandfather’s death, Moya invites Keegan to meet her at a waterfall. Keegan reluctantly agrees. To Keegan’s surprise, Moya knocks him into the river and tells him to let it carry him to the end. Keegan realizes he’s in a magical land when it appears that Moya can dance on water.
When Keegan wakes up the next morning, he’s surprised by Irish Elk with ornate antlers. Keegan discovers that what he thought was a myth is actually real. He also finds out that the King of the Irish Elk keeps the water in the river running and creating life.
The elk king wants to help Keegan overcome his grief and decides to show him his grandfather’s spirit at the age of the island. However, Keegan’s failure to light the lighthouse not only could jeopardize him seeing his grandfather again but also the safety of the Elk and everyone in his town. Keegan must gather the courage to take up his role as lightkeeper and fight off the darkness of the huntsman to keep those he loves safe.
Streaming on Netflix, RIVERDANCE is an upbeat adventure, set on St. Patrick’s day with lively music and dancing. Regrettably, as the title suggests, the movie focuses on the Celtic folklore surrounding Riverdance instead of Ireland’s rich Christian history. The movie stresses that the dancing is in celebration of the river creating and sustaining life. It has a pagan, occult worldview where the King of the magical Irish Elk keeps the river’s water running. RIVERDANCE does have some morally uplifting, redeeming elements, however. It stresses how to handle loss, sacrificial love, friendship, and the power of light to overcome darkness. RIVERDANCE is excessive but not abhorrent.