The Secret of Kells (2009) review

A boy who lives in a tiny, circular village is warned by the chief elder (a.) not to wander outside the massive walls they're building to protect the citizens and (b.) not to open up a sacred book contains Heaven Knows What, so being a boy he (a.) wanders outside the walls and (b.) not only opens but starts writing in the book the experiences he has wandering outside the walls. Anything with animation this smooth and anything that acknowledges the power of literature cannot be all bad, though this does, as some have said, seem not only rushed through but in need of a little fleshing out: its most endearing character is arguably the village cat. The Christian overtones are present but it's probably best to think of it as a story about survival and the need to try and fail on one's own.