Later in the series they encounter and befriend the specialists from Red Fountain: Prince Sky, Brandon, Riven, and Timmy. Stella persuades Bloom to join Alfea, the best fairy school in all the realms.Īt Alfea, Bloom forms the Winx Club, whose members are her four friends and roommates: Stella, Musa, Tecna, and Flora. Coming to Stella's aid, Bloom discovers her magical powers. 4 The Secret of the Lost Kingdom (First Movie)Īn ordinary girl from the planet Earth, Bloom lives a perfectly normal life in the city of Gardenia until she meets Stella, a princess from the planet Solaria, who is in trouble.This magical world of wizards, warlocks and superior witches is just a little too hard to swallow. It is clear that Winx Club 3D: Magic Adventure ’s place is definitely not on the big-screen and not meant for anyone over the age of 16. There’s some sleek manoeuvrings and strategy in place and the voice-acting is satisfactory. On the upside, some of the action scenes are pretty decent. Unfortunately, even though some of them come off as adorable and charming, they are all really skinny, perhaps a little too skinny for their pre-teen followers. The boys of the Winx Club franchise are not portrayed in the best of lights here, it’s the girls that run the show. There is also lack of male fairies, warlocks and female heroines, and the few that do make an appearance don’t have any magic abilities. In fact, it’s pretty intolerable the whole affair is pretty comical. However, if the idea behind the aesthetics is weak, you’re in for trouble. It’s self-contained and the despite the transition to the silver screen, still feels like the traditional animation used in the television show – but then again there is only so much you can do with the use of computer graphics. Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure has some potential, but too many clichés stifle the story. He forbids him from marrying Bloom as she is the daughter of sworn enemy, King Oritel (Prando). Bloom is overjoyed however, Sky’s father Erendor (Marchese) is not. She soon reunites with her beau, Prince Sky (Vivio), who at long last asks for her hand in marriage. The film then shifts to the Kingdom of Sparks, where Bloom (Ciampa) has trouble getting used to her new royal life. The Trix, a trio of witches form Cloud Tower, use the distraction as a cover and sneak into the school to steal the Compass of Revealed Secrets in order to find the Tree of Life, leaving the Winx to clean up the fiasco caused by the spell. Soon, things take a turn for the worse, when the students learn that the members of Cloud Tower – a school for witches – have put the food under a spell as a prank, turning everyone into a frog. The film opens up with the celebration of a new school year at Alfea – a fairy school.
The Winx Club has now returned to their home worlds after safely locking away the Wizards of the Black Circle – also known as the Fairy Hunters – in the frozen world of the Omega Dimension. The story is centred on main character, Bloom – a recently self-discovered powerful fairy – and picks up where season four left off. However, after the viewing of his latest feature, Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure, one can only wonder whether the big screen is really the right place for it.
Winx Club creator-director, Iginio Straffi, recently announced that a third film, as well as a sixth season of the TV series, will be released in 2013. Mostly popular amongst the tweenie girls and other Nickelodeon enthusiasts, Winx Club has been dubbed in many languages and is showing across many worldwide networks. Winx Club is an Italian animated television series that is fond of silly mystical powers, frivolous fairies and foolishly ruthless witches. If you’re over sixteen and not familiar with the magical world of Winx Club, let’s just say, you’re not missing much.