Wars and Sawa

Wars and Sawa - a 2016 traditional animated movie based on a Polish fairytale of the same name. The movie was met with mixed to positve reviews, and currently holds 80% on RottenTomatoes, with critics praising the beautiful visuals and the villain, but criticizing bland characters and medicore romance.

Plot
Its medieval Poland, before the christianisation of Slavs, and the story is centered around Wars - a clumsy fisherman which is an antisocial outcast who can't find any friends, or a girlfriend, his only friends being his boss, Vlodzimir and a wise river creature named Vodyanoy. One day he is noticed on a street by the evil wizard Boggin, and makes a deal with him. If he will get a mermaid for Boggin, he will make him a cool, beloved village hero. Little does Wars know, that Boggin wants to have a mermaid to extract an elixir from her blood, to summon a powerful demon named Bies. Wars captures a mermaid named Sawa, but she got injured during the process so he has to take care of her. During the healing, they fall in love, and during the movie they learn about eachothers worlds. When Sawa gets healed, Boggin comes to Wars' house, breaking Sawa's heart after she realized that she was raised and healed only for the elixir. Wizard takes the mermaid to his evil hut, and makes Wars the town hero. Everyone loves him, but he just feels sad that he was so selfish, so he decides to save Sawa from the evil Boggin. He goes to his hut, and during the duel he kills the wizard, and later marries the mermaid - later they both create a city called Warsaw.

Characters

 * Wars - Wars is slightly overweight, dressed in taterred clothing and his face is always dirty.
 * Sawa - Sawa is a beautiful mermaid with blonde hair. She is angry and violent at first, because she is scared of Wars and normal people which she calls "Landstriders". Later she grows to love Wars.
 * Boggin - main antagonist, an evil wizard. Boggin is very tall, almost skeletal-like, with a skull over his face, minus the lower jaw. He is dressed in dark-green hooded robes. Boggin uses his long-fingered hands to cast spells. During the final duel, he gets killed by getting sucked into one of the wooden idols.
 * Vlodzimir - muscular and ill-tempered fisherman, boss of Wars. He has a pet Kikimora named June, and they both act as comic relief characters, taking parts in slapstick moments and various gags.
 * June - pet Kikimora of Vlodzimir, a creature with a broom-like face formed like an anteaters mouth, with bandana on her head and a rather skinny body, with a rather big, fat belly.
 * Vodyanoy - a creature that looks like an anthropomorphic frog with a silver beard. He is a holder of much knowledge.

Songs

 * The Forest Gods
 * You Are Pathetic