Fearful of a prophecy stating that a girl child will be born to bring about her downfall, the evil Queen Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women within the formidable stronghold of Nockmaar. A child, Elora Danan, is born in the Nockmaar dungeons and identified as the prophesied child by a birthmark on her arm. However, before the black sorceress arrives to claim the child, Elora's mother convinces her reluctant midwife to escape with the baby. Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, is entrusted with delivering the royal infant from evil.
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No. But there's a scene in which a woman holding a knife or sword says to a man who was previously disguised as a woman: "Come any closer, and you really WILL be a woman!", thus implying that being a woman equals having no penis/testicles.
There is a point where someone is smacked by love dust, and it causes them to be excessively romantic. It's also crazy that a wife watches on while her husband immediately gropes a strange "woman" (it's done for laughs as you know it's a man, but the husband doesn't know it). You also might not be expecting how creepy it gets with the sorceress and the abandoned castle. A magic spell keeps going awry and you never know what weird creature a soceress is going to turn into. There are also some twists. Is that what you had in mind?
It's necessary abandonment. A mother gives her baby to a midwife to hide so it's not killed by an evil queen. The midwife then puts the baby on a floating bed of reeds? and pushes it down river to keep it safe from capture/death.
A soceress turns people into pigs, a rival soceress is the main target and her people are watching the spectacle from the castle walls. The process of turning someone into a pig seems torturous. The soceresses later seem to have fun throwing each other into walls for their personal enjoyment.
We see people who grew up poorly (raised on bad food, exposed to tyranny) change their ways, so that's fine. The bigger concern however is the soceress who has been imprisoned as an animal seems to be having a little too much fun torturing the evil sorceress.
Nothing ever actually happens to the baby. She is periodically kidnapped, but always cared for by whoever has her. At the climax of the film there is a ritual which is supposed to eventually harm her, but it never gets that far.
There's something called "black root" which could be interpreted as a drug, or it could just be a snack that's not very healthy. There's also a sort of powdered love potion. It's supposed to be magic but it could seem like a drug.
Sometimes when Elindra changes into another animal a dead carcass is left in it's wake. It looks spooky having a raven puncture through a mammal. Most animals that die though are not ones people see in real life and are more monsters.
The closest thing to a dragon is this two-headed creature which breathes fire. It's never called a dragon and it doesn't look like a dragon. It does die.
A woman is killed by the evil queen at the beginning (probably not a beating, we don't see it). A woman casts another woman into a wall repeatedly. A woman who originally was going to kill a man, got captured by that man, and then uses violence to get away--that one might be more self-defense. War in general involves that kind of conflict, and it's shown in the final battle.
Multiple characters are restrained in various ways throughout the movie: Several are tied up, one is physically held down by another character, several are locked in a cage, one is put in a bag when in animal form, and another is restrained by use of magic.
It looks sort of like someone is on fire (the effect isn't that realistic) but when the fire disappears it's clear there was no actual burning. There's also a lightning strike, but again no actual burning.
No, but a dragon-y thing’s head (it has two) is shot and explodes, but I’ve been told that it looked like sparks. We do see the body afterwards, though.
Yes theres skeletons left in "crow cages" which is where Mad Mardigan is left to die and presumably pecked on by crows hence the name? Nothing is shown besides corpses though.
One scene is quite gore-y.
A troll gets turned into a furry-looking thing that then, for lack of a better word, “sheds” its skin, turning into some horrible, gruesome thing.
Soon after, a dragon-y two-headed thing bites hold of another troll, and the other head does as well. We don’t see the aftermath, but it looked like the troll was going to be torn apart between the two heads.
One of the heads is shot, and explodes, but I was told that it looked like sparks, and then we see the body afterwards.
From the opening of the movie I thought that babies were being killed, but what we actually see happening is that babies who don't have the mark are left alone. There is a baby who is in danger, but it's fairly obvious that this is not the kind of movie where she is going to actually get hurt.
Early on in the movie, a heroic elderly female character, whom we haven't gotten to know well at all, is mauled to death (seen from afar, not graphic) by dog-like creatures. A secondary male character is wounded in battle and has a brief, somewhat moving death scene. The extremely evil main antagonist dies rather spectacularly. The rest of the human deaths are extras in battle scenes, I believe.
No, but another word, presumedly used as a derogatory term for the people with dwarfism, for lack of a better word, are called “pecks” a lot. It reminds me of using other words similar enough that are derogatory.
Not unless you count the fairy who can change size and appear and disappear like a ghost--although it's sudden, her appearance is too lovely for most people to be bothered. Also the lightning strike seems supernatural.
Not really a jumpscare, but when Willow is looking for Raziel, he thinks she’s not there, and then an old lady’s voice is heard, which isn’t very loud, but it might still scare some people.
A shallow river, not too fast. The river does get deep enough to transport a baby who is held up only by grasses (she's old enough to roll over). The people peer over very closely into the river, but no one falls in.
The baby looks over at the soceress kind of disturbed as she's chanting as if she's possessed or at least weird. When people turn into pigs they suffer bad--so I guess becoming an animal means you are possessed by it. People also are possessed by the fairies love powder in a sense.
A baby spits up white milk on someone's face.
And during a chase scene, the horse carriage is going crazily fast and bumpy, and one of the small guys (I think they're called brownies) is bending over the side acting like he's going to be sick, puffing up his cheeks and kinda heaving ( no sound is heard because of the noisy chase going on) but it never shows him actually vomit. Just looks like he's going to, then cuts away.
A man doesn't realize that he is preparing to cheat on his wife for a man--Mad Martegan. Although Martegan is very heavily covered, he is big, and another person notices that he's a man right away. So it's possible that he's drawn to that in a sense, just not consciously.
No pregnant women are shown dying. There is a woman who has given birth, we don't know exactly how recently, who is later ordered to be killed off screen. I think it's supposed to be the case that she just gave birth, but the baby is obviously not a newborn.
In addition to a purposeful desire to be misgendered to get out of a difficult situation (man dressed as a woman--outed because he's "very strong"), someone is determined that the baby girl will grow hair on her chest. Someone else in a parenting-style argument says that's the last thing she'll need. It might feel awkward for some people, and women with extra hair may not appreciate the reminder that most women don't have an excess of hair, so that's why I put it in there, but most people will just laugh.
The movie includes many little people or people with dwarfism and they are often called the in cannon slur of "peck". It is mostly uplifting towards them though and I did read it was the largest gathering of little people ever (at the time at least) for filming the village scene.
Yes, but between actors, not between characters (it's neither super-duper obvious nor addressed in-universe): Warwick Davis was around 17 when the movie was made, and the woman who played Willow's wife was around 30. The most intimate physical interaction between their characters is a quick kiss on the mouth, lips closed.
Mad Mortegan is cheating with a woman before her husband comes home. We only see him as he's stuffing his dress to disguise his affair. It's unlikely he's a virgin at this point if he ever was one recently.
One of the male characters is constantly randomly losing clothes. It's not shot in a way that is terribly objectifying, especially not compared to modern movies. I'm not sure why people are down voting this, it's just a description of what happens, I'm not making any judgments.
No actual sex scenes. The most sexual content: An obnoxious man gropes another man's fake breast (the latter is disguised as a woman) while cornering him aggressively and says "Wanna BREED? HAHAHA!" It's pretty obvious that the disguised man is disguised because he and the other man's wife had extramarital sex shortly before the latter showed up.
Theres gore during the movie one of the more notable parts is Mad Mardigan having a fight with General Kale and both of their faces are smashed and bleeding.