I haven't watched it as a child so probably my opinion of it would be very different had I felt some nostalgia towards it. It is something my best friend liked when she was a child but which I have never had the opportunity to watch before. I don't know why but before watching it I always thought Willow was a woman's name so it was quite surprising that he is a sort of a hafling. We see a bit of his family life and the world of haflings in general, and he turns out to be a warm-hearted and a sensitive person.

The film contains a lot of action as well as sense of humour, sometimes quite goofy, but on the whole is rather enjoyable. We have the chosen one, a quest to fulfill which falls on a halfling, there is also a fairy queen and little fairies, here called brownies, which bring a lot of comic relief to the movie. There is also magic as the main protagonist Willow has always wanted to become a wizard but, as it turns out at the end, he lacked a proper amount of self-confidence. And near the finale we get a magical battle between two sorceresses.

The film is rather enjoyable, though at times I got the impression that I am watching some production made by amateurs and that the film-makers event the events as they go, it was chaotic at times, especially in the middle. It is meant for children but it seems to me that the battle scenes are a tad too brutal for kids, and as for the main baddie, I guess my primary school self would have been terrified of her. I wonder how all these things would look like in the new show, would the protagonists' characters and their relationships deepened and developed somehow as they would have more screen time.