The movie is lovely, the stories very entertaining and original, our fav characters are still there, and, most importantly, the movie offers glimpses of the life in a West-African village, which are precious to show to a Western children audience. The stories will show kids that not everybody is the same, dresses the same, or lives the same, that Africa is an amazing beautiful varied continent, and that the world is richer because of that.
Ocelot's drawings and visuals are simple, very attentive to landscape and plant drawing, very ethnographic in a way. The stories, though, have a good dollop of magical reality.
However, overall, the movie does not have the energy and spark of the original story, is not as engaging, and the different stories are unrelated -except for the fact that Kirikou and his neighbours are in them- and plainer - more for children than for adults.
