Featuring the voices of Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Val Kilmer. Rated PG.

If the team behind the C-grade mess that is Delgo deserves credit for anything, it's a shameless willingness to pillage the past for inspiration. For those who’ve always had a thing for Jedi-like mind tricks, Alien Nation lizard people, The Lord of the Rings battle sequences, The Dark Crystal fairies, and that English windbag who wrote Romeo and Juliet, this decade-in-the-making fantasy sounds like a mashup for the ages.

But forget riffing on the films that it has (liberally) borrowed from; Delgo aims no higher than ripping them off. Despite a promising cast that mixes the Facebook Nation–approved likes of Freddie Prinze Jr. with veterans such as Val Kilmer and Malcolm McDowell, the story is flatter than Nebraska. It doesn't help that the weirdly static animation looks like a ColecoVision video game, or that the characters appear to have flown off the side of an airbrushed '70s panel van.

Set in a mythical land called Jhamora, Delgo has a race of disturbingly liver-spotted reptilians known as Locknis at odds with a nation of flying Anne Geddes–inspired Nohrin sprites who've relocated to the planet. While a Lockni called Delgo (Prinze) attempts to get into the winged pants of Nohrin princess Kyla (Jennifer Love Hewitt), banished empress Sedessa (the late Anne Bancroft) hatches a plot to start a war between the two races.

Too convoluted for kids, nowhere near subversive enough for teens weaned on YTV, and offering nothing for adults beyond not blowing as badly as Rocket Robin Hood, Delgo can't even get its big message across properly. Despite sermons about forgetting the past and embracing cultural differences, in the end Sedessa proves to be the most psychotic bitch this side of Leona Helmsley. So much for peace, love, and understanding, not to mention inspiration or originality.