THE WINGFEATHER SAGA: Episodes 3.1-3.3

Name: THE WINGFEATHER SAGA: Episodes 3.1-3.3
Item: THE WINGFEATHER SAGA: Episodes 3.1-3.3
Author: Review

“An Inspiring Message of Family, Faith, Survival, and Freedom”

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

THE WINGFEATHER SAGA is an animated fantasy-adventure series by Angel Studios about three children and their quest against a tyrannical reptilian empire. In the First Half of Season Three, the Wingfeather Clan makes a perilous trip across a mountainous tundra for sanctuary. Meanwhile, the reptilian Fang Empire has recently taken Tink Wingfeather as a prisoner of war. Can the family rescue Tink in time?

The first three episodes of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA: Season Three are excellent. The action scenes, voice direction and animation quality are all superb. The characters are believable, the dialogue is natural, and the writing is wonderful. Moreover, the first half of Season Three has a strong Christian, moral worldview. It favors family, faith in God, perseverance, hope, and heroes battling a harsh world of tyrannical monsters using magic. The heroes fight for freedom against their harsh oppressors. However, THE WINGFEATHER SAGA: Season Three has some intense fantasy violence. For example, there’s some sword fighting, a bird deeply scratches a boy’s shoulder, and the villains transform people into monsters. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and young teenagers.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong Christian, moral worldview, with anti-totalitarian elements supporting freedom, stresses family and rebelling against evil, the heroes thank “the Maker,” a Christian, biblical God stand-in, for keeping the family alive, the heroes refuse to give up hope to save their missing son, a boy welcomes a mercenary girl as his helper, the protagonists live in a fantasy world of magic and evil lizard men, a girl starts an underground rebellion at a slave factory, and the bad guys use occult magic to turn human prisoners into evil monsters;

Foul Language:

No foul language;

Violence:

Moderate stylized cartoon violence throughout Episodes One through Three includes two teenagers escape from a hungry snow yeti, there are two scenes of humans engaging in sword-to-sword combat, the heroes shoot arrows at hungry mountain birds and skin them for meat (but no blood or gore is shown), a man is held hostage by lizard men, and a boy gets a deep scratch on his shoulder by a bird;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

A teenage girl fails to get a sip of beer;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Two men briefly smoke cigars, but no drugs;

Miscellaneous Immorality:

A subplot shows human children being used as slave labor at a metal factory, a girl is thrown into a “punishment box,” the lizard men use illegal magic to turn human prisoners into evil monsters, and a human ally betrays the heroes to the bad guys out of self-preservation.

More Detail:

The First Half of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA Season 3 is excellent. The action scenes, voice direction, and general animation quality are all superb. The characters are believable, the dialogue is natural, and the writing is wonderful. From a production standpoint, Season Three holds the same bar of excellence seen in previous episodes.

From a moral standpoint, THE WINGFEATHER SAGA has a strong bias towards Christianity and redemptive elements. During Episodes One through Three, the human characters openly thank the “Maker,” this universe’s equivalent of a redemptive Christian God. The heroes embody the virtues of family, perseverance, hope, and preparation for an uprising against a tyrannical government. Later, the Wingfeather family integrates with an underground human city partially inspired by an indigenous Alaskan tribe.

Season Three of WINGFEATHER is filled to the brim with fantasy action violence and some characters with magic-inflicted deformities. The heroes fight off a mountain yeti, a swarm of ravenous birds, slide down a mountain, and briefly engage in sword combat. In one instance, a boy gets his shoulder scratched by a bird and almost bleeds to death from the wound (he survives). During an off-screen moment, the Fang Empire turns a group of human prisoners into evil werewolves against their will.

The first three episodes of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA: Season Three are excellent. The action scenes, voice direction and general animation quality are all superb. The characters are believable, the dialogue is natural, and the writing is airtight. Moreover, the first half of Season Three has a strong Christian, moral worldview favoring family, faith in God, perseverance, hope, and heroes battling a harsh world of tyrannical monsters using dark magic. That said, THE WINGFEATHER SAGA: Season Three has some intense fantasy violence. For example, there’s some sword fighting, a bird scratches a boy deeply on his shoulder, a girl is thrown into a “punishment box” in a slave labor factory, and the reptilian villains transform humans into monsters. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and younger teenagers.

THE WINGFEATHER SAGA continues to provide an inspiring message of family, faith, survival, and freedom.