Kirikou And The Sorceress

The perfect corrective for kids weaned on Disney's TARZAN and THE LION KING: An animated tale set in Africa whose central characters are actually Africans, not singing animals. That the film, adapted from a West African folktale by French filmmaker Michel Ocelot, is smart, funny and stunningly designed is a bonus. No sooner is precocious Kirikou born (he demands from within his mother's womb to be brought into the world) than he's out the door to join his uncle in battling Karaba, the wicked sorceress who's dried up the village's spring and eaten nearly all its men. Karaba, a fabulously fierce creature dripping with gold and so wicked no vegetation ca...