Freedom Force is a Peruvian animated (also known as Fantastic Force, Fantastic 4orce, The Illusionauts, and Los ilusionautas.) The lip movement was originally designed for the Spanish language version, naturally, and the voices are off in the English dub. There are a number of differences between the Spanish cut and the English cuts and there are differences between the Fantastic 4orce cut and the Freedom Force cut with scenes being added, deleted, moved, reused (in the English versions), and the dialog is different in places. The entire opening section of both English versions are not in the Spanish version I watched. My Spanish is not good enough to say either English dub is more accurate to the original dialog, but they both seem to cover the story adequately with Fantastic 4orce being closer in one section to the original.
The story is rather complex, someone has fiddled with the works of Jules Verne to ruin the stories and a group of 12-year old children (also a dog) are sent into the stories to find and activate a reset switch to restore the stories. Aside from the literary value, the French President's Wife is supposed to host an event to celebrate Verne's stories.
The children all represent an aspect of Verne's personality at the age he started writing: Genius and love of technology; Literature; a descendant of Verne's first love, and Flatulence (which Verne is said to have suffered.) Their suits transform to fit the situations they encounter.
The movie is not the worst I've seen, there are structural problems, and the plot is a bit of a mess, but it is strangely interesting for people who enjoy Creature Feature movies.
The books used in the movie are:
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
From the Earth to the Moon
Hamlet - an altered quote to show the program works, "TV or not TV that is the question?"
Around the World in 80 Days - referenced only
There is also a scene that references the Jules Verne Time Train (Back to the Future Reference)
A running gag that involves a bug flying into a mouth is a reference to Kung Pow Enter the Fist from 2002.
The story is rather complex, someone has fiddled with the works of Jules Verne to ruin the stories and a group of 12-year old children (also a dog) are sent into the stories to find and activate a reset switch to restore the stories. Aside from the literary value, the French President's Wife is supposed to host an event to celebrate Verne's stories.
The children all represent an aspect of Verne's personality at the age he started writing: Genius and love of technology; Literature; a descendant of Verne's first love, and Flatulence (which Verne is said to have suffered.) Their suits transform to fit the situations they encounter.
The movie is not the worst I've seen, there are structural problems, and the plot is a bit of a mess, but it is strangely interesting for people who enjoy Creature Feature movies.
The books used in the movie are:
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
From the Earth to the Moon
Hamlet - an altered quote to show the program works, "TV or not TV that is the question?"
Around the World in 80 Days - referenced only
There is also a scene that references the Jules Verne Time Train (Back to the Future Reference)
A running gag that involves a bug flying into a mouth is a reference to Kung Pow Enter the Fist from 2002.