TheNightling
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Over the Garden wall is a gorgeous, gorgeous, hand-drawn animated mini-series. If you watch it spliced together it's roughly the length of a movie.
about two brothers lost in a surreal and fantastical enchanted forest.
What makes this Isekai (wizard of Oz-esque) style fantasy unique is everything the boys encounter comes from vintage (late nineteenth century and early twentieth century) New England Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving, and Christmas / Yule postcards.
Much like Nightmare before Christmas I consider this a multi-holiday story. The original plan was that the boys would return home on Christmas but at the last second they decided to have the boys return home on Halloween instead.
The mini-series is visually gorgeous and won an Emmy for Outstanding achievement in animation. It features the voices of Elijah Wood, Christopher Lloyd, John Cleese, and Tim Curry.
The main song "Into the Unknown" and others are provided by Jack Jones (The Love Boat).
Over the Garden Wall originally premiered on Cartoon Network on November 3rd 2014. But I didn't see it until the summer of 2017 and that is when I fell in love with it. It's sweet, spooky, wholesome, with a good message and loving homages to vintage Americana. It's so wholesome and warm that it's like chicken soup for the soul. And yet it is also delightfully surreal and Gothic.
There are lots of well-known voice actors in this including Elijah Wood, Christopher Lloyd, John Cleese, and Tim Curry.
about two brothers lost in a surreal and fantastical enchanted forest.
What makes this Isekai (wizard of Oz-esque) style fantasy unique is everything the boys encounter comes from vintage (late nineteenth century and early twentieth century) New England Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving, and Christmas / Yule postcards.
Much like Nightmare before Christmas I consider this a multi-holiday story. The original plan was that the boys would return home on Christmas but at the last second they decided to have the boys return home on Halloween instead.
The mini-series is visually gorgeous and won an Emmy for Outstanding achievement in animation. It features the voices of Elijah Wood, Christopher Lloyd, John Cleese, and Tim Curry.
The main song "Into the Unknown" and others are provided by Jack Jones (The Love Boat).
Over the Garden Wall originally premiered on Cartoon Network on November 3rd 2014. But I didn't see it until the summer of 2017 and that is when I fell in love with it. It's sweet, spooky, wholesome, with a good message and loving homages to vintage Americana. It's so wholesome and warm that it's like chicken soup for the soul. And yet it is also delightfully surreal and Gothic.
There are lots of well-known voice actors in this including Elijah Wood, Christopher Lloyd, John Cleese, and Tim Curry.
