Magos y Gigantes

Magos y Gigantes
Directed byAndrés Couturier
Eduardo Sprowls C.
Written byFrancisco Hirata
Story byAdolfo Martínez Vara
José C. García de Letona
Francisco Hirata
Produced byFernando de Fuentes S.
Guillermo Cañedo W.
Juan Fernando Pérez Gavilán M.
StarringXóchitl Ugarte
Rossy Aguirre
Rubén Trujillo
Gaby Ugarte
Francisco Colmenero
Miguel Couturier
Eduardo Garza
Juan Ramón Huerta
Arath de la Torre
Moisés Iván Mora
Edited byJorge Hernández S.
Music byXavier Asali
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox International
Release date
  • November 19, 2003 (2003-11-19)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish
Box officeMX$8.3 million[1]
(US$731,662)[2]

Magos y Gigantes (known as Wizards and Giants in English) is a 2003 Mexican animated fantasy-comedy film produced by Ánima Estudios and 20th Century Fox (now known as 20th Century Studios) and released on November 19, 2003. This is the first feature film from Ánima Estudios and the first theatrically released animated film created with Adobe Flash, a program often used for internet cartoons. It was also the first Mexican animated feature in 30 years.[3]

It stars Xóchitl Ugarte, Rossy Aguirre and Trujo as the voices of Gigante, Ada and Trafalgar, respectively. The main antagonist, Titán Caradura, is played by actor and comedian Arath de la Torre. Also featured are actors Gaby Ugarte, Francisco Colmenero, Moisés Iván Mora and Miguel Couturier.

The film, set in a magical village inhabited by colorful beings and creatures that are part of a medieval kingdom, follows the story of Gigante (Xóchitl Ugarte), Ada (Aguirre) and Trafalgar (Trujo), three misfit children who join forces to rescue Princess Luna (Gaby Ugarte), daughter of the kingdom's rulers; At the same time, they must recover a powerful magic scroll and defeat Titán Caradura (De la Torre), a young sorcerer who wants to steal the magic of the villagers to become powerful and take over the kingdom.

An animated series loosely based on this film, Awesome Magical Tales (formerly Teenage Fairytale Dropouts), premiered on Seven Network in Australia on December 31, 2012.[4]

  1. ^ "Películas Animadas 2000 – 2018". Canacine. Cámara Nacional de la Industria Cinematográfica. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  2. ^ Magos y Gigantes box office
  3. ^ "México se anima con Magos y Gigantes". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). Torreón, Coahuila. 17 November 2003. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  4. ^ Zahed, Ramin (28 September 2011). "'Teenage Fairytale Dropouts' Gets Happy Ending | Animation Magazine". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 30 October 2013.