To say that Game Of Thrones was a pop culture phenomenon would be a huge understatement as at it;s height this show was everywhere. Yet even tho it had several very successful seasons it really only had one animated spin off and it's one that that really not alot of people really know about as it was something that was never aired on TV as it was instead released direct to DVD and it's that very animated film that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me as I review the film that really does have a mouthful of a title with the film in question being called simply just "Game Of Thrones: Conquest & Rebellion An Animated History Of The Seven Kingdoms" enjoy.
The plot of this film is Aegon Targaryen starts his conquest to rule all of Westeros but his quest might very well cost his family everything. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films plot telling us a story that due to the timeline of the show just couldn't be told in the show itself as well as being a really entertaining plot and very engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Harry Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen , Conleth Hill as Varys and Pilou Asbæk as Euron Greyjoy. Also starring in this film is Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark and Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish. While the fact that they managed to get a good deal of the cast from the main show back for alot of them it doesn't really make sense for their characters to be telling these stories as say for example Euron Greyjoy isn't the type of character to be telling stories about the past however a characters like Tyrion Lannister would as it's something that he would frequently do in the show and so why they didn't get Peter Dinklage back for this film is well and truly beyond me.
Now then interms of what I personally thought /felt about thew actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honest personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually feature / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Which really isn't all that surprising as these actors and actresses are playing characters that at the point that this film was being made were mostly still playing and had been playing for close to a decade which means that they would know what performance would best suit there restive characters in any given and what helps the acting in this film is the fact that this films script is so good that all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
For once I have no clue who is doing the animation for this film as no animation company is listed anywhere on IMDB. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that thew actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this film having a more storybook style of animation to it which means that alot of the film is told basically in still images with there being very movement in the film but what little movement we do get was really good with this films animation also giving us some really cool looking camera moves as well.
As a die hard Game Of Thrones and House Of The Dragon fan it was really cool seeing how this film connects itself to Game Of Thrones. Not only through the use of returning actors but also due to the fact that this film goes into further details about wars that were only hinted at during the shows run which was a nice touch as was hearing how certain characters felt about certain events which for the most part felt very in character but I would have liked it if we got to hear a bit more about what the characters from the show was doing during after certain events of Aegon's Conquest especially those that we know for a fact would have been alive as it would have added more connections from the film to the show and it would have made characters that we knew very little about in the show seem all the more important in the grand scheme of things.
This film is about ten chapters long which made it feel alot more like a mini-series then it is an actual film. However on the flip side of that this film s basically an anthology film by it''s very nature and with that in mind it does make sense to have this film split up into chapters as it then allows us to go into more detail about certain events that happen's during Aegon's Conquest alot of which really would have been cut out if it was done in a more familiar style of story telling and while pretty much all of the events in this film do also get covered in the book "Fire And Blood: The History Of The Targaryen Kings From Aegon The Conqueror To Aegon III" which really means that this film is pretty really much not needed anyway as it's all covered really in alot more detail in book form then it really is in the form of this film.
I don't really think that it was necessary for the makers of the film to include how iconic things from the show were created. As they really added nothing to the overall plot of the film and felt alot more like fanservice and nothing more then that which is a shame as seeing how the Iron Throne was created was a really good and if you've seen the final ever episode of Game Of Thrones then you'll notice some nice symmetry between how the throne was created and how the throne was destroyed which was something that I really liked as well as it being something that I never really noticed before and it's something that makes me wonder if the ending of the show really was planned out as given the nature of animation it's something that would have to have been decided pretty long ago.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this films running time even was I do know that for a fact that this film has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly forty four minuets. Which was the perfect time for this film to have as given the fact that this film is told in chapters there's only, so many chapters that they could have dine before the film started to get boring and starting to stretch it's already fairly thin story even thinner but at the same time as there is so much that could be told during this time period I would have liked it if this film was a tad bit longer but that would mean stretching it's story beyond breaking point which in the end would do lot more harm to the film then it would good and I will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it as well.
So now then as this is an action film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As we do get to see alot of really blood action scenes in this film however the alot of the action scenes aren't fully animated with them mostly being still image which does mean that it's very hard to fully judge the action in this film but based off of hat we see in this film this films action scenes really do seem to be very exciting and very well done in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film really does make me wonder why they never produced a fully animated Game Of Thrones series or movie as there is so much in that world that would look truly stunning in the world of animation in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very very review and as such that means that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review fro the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very post being the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the really great freaking the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page are all of course really fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as them all really being very fairly freaking high in definition.