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Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)

VHS Movie Reviews of Creatures Fantastic Tricky Tricksters

Movie Review: Excellent Video! One of the best in the series!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Tricky Trickster is an excellent addition to this British television series. Once again, viewers are treated to a beautifully filmed series exploring the myths and legends surrounding the cultural myths of the Trickster god/s. Featured in this film are the Leprechaun, an African spider god, and the selfish and evil god of fire: Loki and much more. In particular, I enjoyed listening to the story of Odysseus and his brave crew, and the story of the African spider god was a fun morality tale, sure to delight everyone.

My only complaint about the Creatures Fantastic series...Is that it is not much longer. The series runs about 30 minutes, which I think could easily be stretched to AT LEAST an hour... Maybe two. Also, they missed out on discussing Coyote who was quite a prankster.

Because of some mature content, such as graphic violence, and depictions of death, I recommend this video for teenagers and adults.

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Summary of Creatures Fantastic Tricky Tricksters

Asking the viewer to imagine a world with no trickery, this well-produced narrative suggests that it would indeed be a dull place. Survival in the natural world, for example, often involves deception through camouflage or feigned behavior, each a form of trickery. Similarly, great acts of survival throughout history have often resulted from trickery and deception. Thus, Tricky Tricksters asserts that the world's great myths all contain a trickster character, offering superb examples from traditions as diverse as Greece (Odysseus) and Scandinavia (Loki). In the final round, this episode of Creatures Fantastic argues that the eternal trickster serves to help us understand the world--and, thus, is essential to our survival. --Stephan Magcosta

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