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Nice effects though.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

The plot of the movie, as some other reviewers have posted, was supposedly dampened because everything was blamed on puberty. However, watching the movie and paying attention, you'll realize that like everything else the aliens though, this idea is wrong.At the beginning of the movie the aliens are about to go home to their planet and Yobi gives a light hearted reply about what she's gonna do when they are gone. As shenanigans happen and one of them winds up in the human village, Yobi sets out to retrieve him. From the start it's obvious Yobi is a very in the moment character. She steals a charm while displaying all tails, almost falls in an enchanted lake, and has shows very little forethought.When Yobi starts acting strangely, the aliens assume its puberty, and to some extent it might be, however it is not the main drive. Yobi does not spend any part of the film trying to seduce anyone or commit any other puberty related activities. However throughout she does become moodier. See, I don't believe this moodiness has anything to do with puberty and everything to do with the very real current drama in her life. Think about it, her only family is about to leave, a hunter is trying to kill her for no reason, and everyone keeps telling her about how she is suppose to be acting and feeling. No one, not even the aliens asks Yobi what it is she wants, and truly Yobi probably wouldn't know how to answer.When the teacher tells her about how the rest of the village treats the students she can relate to them because that's how she thinks they would treat her. Also the aliens are fixing there ship again, meaning they will be leaving the moment they can. But with the boy and the class, even if its slightly confused, she thinks she might have a chance to stay there even as a fox.At the end when Yobi sacrifices her soul, I doubt its completely out of some rushed love but more because she realizes that one, she screwed up, two he has the potential to live a happy life just as he is and three, and more sadly that she does not have that potential. So especially to the reviewer who stated that Yobi should have been more antagonistic, Why? She didn't start out that way and had no reason for acting as such. Yobi just wanted to be Yobi, which (in my book) makes it a much better story then if she just wanted to steal his soul. Which has never made sense to me accept under certain circumstances. I mean really, who would really think they can be human and live a happy life after knowingly stealing someone else soul in order to get there. That makes so little sense I don't know why it keeps popping up as actual villain motivation, especially when an otherwise very smart villain tries to pull it off.

Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox is an animated Korean film by Lee Seong-gang. This fanciful animated adventure tells the story of Yobi, a magical shape-changing fox of Korean legend. One hundred years ago, aliens landed on a mountain near where a small, white five tailed fox lived. After being stranded on Earth for one hundred years, they are ready for a test flight to see if they can return home. The test fails as one of the aliens makes a mistake, and the other aliens tell him to leave.The runaway alien finds itself taken in by a class of students at the foot of the mountain. There, a teacher named Kang trains students who don't fit in at a regular school. To save the alien, the five tailed fox takes on the form of a human girl, and joins the school under the name of Yobi.Yobi is 100 years old - aged by human standards but just a kid by those of her own species. When aliens crash land in Yobi's woods, she befriends them as they toil to repair their spaceship, but eventually, a group of children discover the creatures and capture one of them. Yobi must pose as a human girl in order to steal her way into the group and rescue her alien friend, but the price of her ruse may eventually mean capturing the soul of someone she loves.Yobi becomes exposed to the hunter, which makes her leave. Of course, the fox hunter tries to hunt her down. Geum-ie tries to save her, but falls down in a lake which makes Geum-ie's soul trapped in a cage as a bird. Yobi tries to save him, but the shadow takes Geum-ie's soul. He states that his soul was taken from him long ago and that he needs one to become solid. Yobi defeats the shadow and some ghosts tell Yobi that the number of souls in the lake is always the same and a soul can never go out unless a soul replaces it. Yobi replaces her soul with Geum-ie's. Geum-ie returns to his world. He tries to call for Yobi, but to no avail. He is last seen leaving with the teacher and the other students. Some time later, Yobi's soul is released. Yobi becomes human and Geum-ie is probably a grown-up already.The movie features talented Korean superstar Son Ye-jin as the voice Yobi,which makes this already appealing for that reason alone.Aside from that,it has all good elements of a memorable animation such as cute animals, mystery, childhood gaiety, combined with high-resolution 3D's and action.Unfortunately,the movie lacks that certain element wherein the viewer would certainly care for Yobi and the dilemma that she is facing and her experiences as well.In the end,it was a great anime but fell short from being a classic.

I saw this Korean after seeing the visually impressive Korean anime "Wonderful Days" that despite having an incredible animation was filled with many clichés and stereotypes. Fortunately, "Yobi: The Five Tailed Fox", was much better than "Wonderful Days", having all the feeling from any film from the studio Ghibli. Even when the animation is not at the same level of any production of Hayao Miyazaki, it stylish and well made, with lovely colors, detailed sceneries and the best part of it, original and charming characters. "Yobi; The five tailed Fox" combines legendary characters with some elements of science fiction and familiar drama, and the most incredible thing is that it works very well. Even when this is not a masterpiece as the other film from Seong-kang Lee, "My beautiful girl Mari", is still a pretty charming fantasy for all the family, with very interesting characters and lots of imagination.8/10

Beautifully animated (Actually its one of the most beautiful animated films I've ever seen on DVD) about Yobi, a five tailed fox, some aliens who've crashed in her forest, a school for troubled children, Mr Shadow, a bear, love, the ability to steal souls and a few things I'm missing.Overly busy film is better in parts than as a whole. Its almost as if the filmmakers (including the director who did the stunning-in the truest sense-My Beautiful Girl Mari) had too many things they wanted to do but only had 85 minutes to do it in. The story as a whole (which boils down to Yobi falling in love with a human) just doesn't work. Mostly it's because there are so many side trips that distract from the "main" story and the side trips are more interesting then the main thrust of the story. I kept wanting it to go in directions other then where it was going because the plot line didn't have a natural progression to that point (actually it felt like a dog, or fox, being taken out for a drag instead of a walk).This isn't to say its a bad film its not. Its actually pretty good but there are small moments, The girl looking in the mirror, the bear (in almost every scene he's in- though when he's first seen sitting by the lake is particularly touching), the little girl and her teddy bear (or lack there of) and others, that are of such incredible power and such absolute revealing truth that the central plot line feels so completely artificial compared to them. (I want so much to tell you about all of these little wonders but I can't bring myself to spoil them.) There is real magic in the moments that it makes the rest of the film seem weak.If you are willing to take the good with the bad, if you want to see some stunning animation and experience moments of true magic, and are willing to work with a film to get to them I recommend this film. You'll like the movie and love the moments...(actually the moments and the films beautiful look are what make the movie worth seeing) I am in awe of the moments And gosh darn it that bear is some of the best character animation I've ever seen-and it mostly requires nothing but him sitting there doing nothing.6.5 out of 10 (with parts that are much higher)