This is the playbook for “The Myth of Redemptive Violence”, wherein doing unspeakable violence is fine as long as the bad guy did some first.

And the soul of our culture sighs with relief.

This is cute, and there’s some great comic timing, but why does everything have to be CG?!!

Stevenson’s original comic had such a wonderful, unique visual style; I would have loved to see that animated, rather than this, which looks like a animation student’s test reel. (“Look, I made the eyes move!” Yes, yes.)