This Russian madman, Rasputin, is the personification of evil in the film. Consumed by his
hatred for the Tsar Nicholas and his family, he sold his soul for a reliquary which granted
him the power to place a curse on Romanovs to end the line forever. On the night of the
Russian Revolution, one member of the Romanov family escaped, leaving Rasputin’s
curse unfulfilled. Now trapped in limbo, he can no longer place a curse on the last
surviving member of the Romanov family. Or can he?
Rasputin is the villian of the film (duh!), but contrary to many traditional animated villians,
he exhibits "manic mood swings and comic self-obsession" making him a "wildly comic
character."
|