As average as it is, this movie was kind of fun to watch.
It starts with Leafie wanting to live in the backyard instead of laying eggs, so she pretends to be dead and is sent off to be buried, but manages to escape. After this weasel is introduced who wants to eat Leafie and a Wild Duck helps her escape.
This Wild Duck has been fighting the Weasel for some time. And there is his final fight, where he sacrifices himself by jumping off a cliff and taking the Weasel with him, but the Weasel survives.
After this "the real movie begins," as Leafie helps a Duck's egg hatch, and she becomes the "mother" of this duckling. Before this, the wild duck that Leafie calls "Wanderer" tells Leafie to take the duckling that was about to hatch to the swamp, and she doesn't know the reason for this, but he says that one day she will understand.
During this the relationship between Leafie and her "son", whom she names Greenie, develops. One thing I did not like is that there is Time-Skip in the middle of nowhere, from one scene to another at the moment when Greenie is just a puppy.
The movie portrays Greenie's acceptance that his mother is not a duck either. At one point he says he is ashamed of her, but she saves him from the man and he sees that she is a good mother to him.
Towards the end there is a competition of the wild ducks to see who will be their flight leader. The result was kind of obvious, but it was nice to see. After this some things happen and the film ends, Leafie and Greenie say goodbye with the promise of meeting again.
The characters are not great. The best is Leafie, who is very charismatic.
The only character I didn't like is Otter, he is very annoying and even irritating at times.
One thing you can't complain about in this movie is the production. Everything is very detailed and consistent.
The animation is very fluid and consistent. There were moments that I didn't know if it was CGI or 2D because it was so well done.
It's an average movie, but I had a good time.
