'Maya and the Three' review: Jorge R. Gutiérrez ('The Book of Life') directs an animated miniseries with a Mesoamerican setting.
” and the 2007 Nickelodeon series “El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera.” Fans of either will find themselves at home in this Mesoamerican epic, with its mix of folkloric motifs, comedy and anime-derived action; fans of both should be filled with joy. It’s been too long an absence for a singular talent.
Spread out over nine episodes, “Maya” is a sprawling affair with intricately worked out action and a digressive plot. Yet one feels — though it can’t actually be the case given that it takes a heap of help to make an animated feature — that the route from sketchbook to screen was a short one. Its eccentricities, even its occasional awkwardness, are not distinct from its poetry.
As the tale begins in some unspecified time long ago, Maya is turning 15 and about to be officially crowned princess of the kingdom of Teca, as in Azteca. Although she is being groomed to be a diplomat like her mother , Maya envies her amiable but dim brothers’ quests and adventures.So she sneaks out at night to the “illegal bare-knuckle fighting pit” to take on an opponent 20 times her size; she’s got spunk, but she’s also a bit of a bratty teenager.
Maya’s trip to the fighting pit wins her only a dislocated shoulder; the coronation goes ahead, attended by representatives of the story’s three other kingdoms. But it is interrupted by Zatz , the Prince of Bats, a good-looking kid up from the underworld who drops a bomb regarding Maya’s true parentage.
Things go their complicated way, with puzzles to solve and prophecies to interpret or misinterpret. After Maya’s excitable father fails to crush the forces of power-hungry Lord Mictlan, the God of War , the daughter journeys to the other kingdoms, picking up allies on the way like Dorothy on the yellow brick road.
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