“A Chilling Message of Family and Survival”
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What You Need To Know:
The first three episodes of THE WINGFEATHER Season 3 are yet another great outing from Angel Studios. The writing, action, and production quality are immaculate. Moreover, it has a strong Christian bias towards family, perseverance, and overcoming a harsh world of monsters and magic. However, there is intense fantasy violence, including a boy being scratched on the shoulder and humans transforming into monsters. As such, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and sensitive adults.
Content:
A strong Christian perspective that emphasizes family and rebelling against evil, the heroes thank the Maker / Christian 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;
No foul language;
Moderate stylized cartoon violence throughout Episodes One through Three, two teens 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;
No sex;
No Nudity;
A teenage girl fails to get a sip of beer;
Two men briefly smoke cigars;
A subplot of a 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 airtight. From a production standpoint, Season Three holds the same bar of excellence seen in previous episodes. But does it pass the Angel Studios litmus test of morality?
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. While the show passes this litmus test with flying colors, Season Three has some alarming violence.
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 Half of THE WINGFEATHER Season Three is yet another great outing from Angel Studios. The writing, action, and production quality are immaculate. Moreover, it has a strong Christian bias towards family, perseverance, and overcoming a harsh world of monsters and magic. However, there is intense fantasy violence, including a boy being scratched on the shoulder and humans transforming into monsters. As such, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and sensitive adults.
