Walt Disney animated production which took over 2 years to make and involved over 200 artists from 17 countries.From the producer of Shrek and Shrek 2, comes a high-flying computer-animated comedy-adventure tale of a brave-but-undersized pigeon named Valiant (voiced by Ewan McGregor), who dreams of joining the elite Royal Homing Pigeon Service (RHPS), and serving crown and country during World War II. Stellar voice cast, includes: Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese plus more!
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This is an animated comedy of a British Valiant-pigeon who enlists to "The Royal Pigeon Message Service" of the World War II. Falcons represent German's Luftwaffe and French animal resistance is in the hands of mice! Overall impression is quite like with Chicken Run, only this is made with computer animation.
It has come to be a habit for animations to contain loads of references to other movies and general pop-culture so that adults can have their own fun while their descendants laugh at animation characters' slapstick. This film makes no exception in that sense. But it does this mixing superbly. Additional credit has to be given to makers because the WW II might be considered a-bit-harder-than-usual subject for a kid-flick. The cast is excellent. Especially Ricky Gervais' character Bugsy felt so much alive that I almost waited him to break through the shell of an animated character and become visible on-screen. This comes not only from the voice but from delicately characterized animation, though.
There are no songs disrupting the storytelling and there is some mild violence (well, in war there is, right?), so this might be not the best choice for the very youngest children? Not Shrek, but a quite hilarious little film for adults and children alike!
A very interesting film that is based on a little bit of truth. No, there were not pigeons singing and dancing and wearing little helmets during the war, but there were pigeons and other animals that did play a significant part in the war effort. In good form, the film acknowledges these animals at the end of the film. Not a bad piece.
I saw this film at the World Premiere in London. It has an incredible all star British cast including Ewan McGregor, John Cleese, Ricky Gervais, Jim Broadbent, the list goes on. It's a simple story of a smaller than average pigeon who decides to join the Homing Pigeon Service. The animation is first rate and the characterisations are excellent. Smaller children may be a little scared of the scenes with the hawks, but this is only a minor foible. It's a thoroughly British story though and there are only English accents and voices. I hope our American cousins aren't put off by this, after all we Brits watch a lot of American movies, be they cartoon, CGI or live action. It's fun and it has a real feel good factor about it and tells a wartime story about animals being the heroes for a change, which is nice. Go and see it, you won't be disappointed.
Valiant was one of the best cartoons I have ever seen. Luckily I didn't prejudge the movie based upon a poor relationship with a significant other. It was different, and historical, with a bit of British humor. This is the kind of movie that I want my children to see, not some pointless, thoughtless film like Madagascar, Finding Nemo, or some other highly ridiculous Disney movie. I am rarely impressed with animated films nowadays, but this one was different. I actually liked how the film did not try to cater to an adult's tastes just for the money it might generate. It is a movie I will buy.
I own this movie and its funny about the pigenos agains the falcons and they have to get a message through to their forces on the other side about the war and vallian the smallest of all the pigenos he bacomes a heros. great movie for the children.
Oh boy, Disney has their hands full with this one... a British animated and voiced film about World War Two with death, destruction and rude jokes. Oh, lets hope they don't cut the living hell out of this thing.
This is the story of Valiant, a smaller than normal pigeon, who wants to join up with the Royal Carrier Pigeon Service. With the help of Bugsy, a con artist pigeon he accidentally saves, he manages to trick his way into the service. Training has barely begun when they are rushed off to France to bring back an important message. There Valiant, Bugsy and his squad come face to face with the evil falcon's who'd like nothing better than to make them lunch.
A brief 75 minutes long (reports of 109 minutes must be wrong) this is a good send up of World War Two conventions. We have hateful Nazi falcons (the leader is played evilly by Tim Curry); the do or die mission; Mom's tearful goodbye; Edith Piaf on the gramophone, French resistance, balmy Brits (two of which are John Cleese and John Hurt); heroic sacrifice and on and on and on.
The voice cast is excellent and any Anglophiles out there will want to see this for the great voice cast which includes Ewan McGregor as Valiant, who is a wonderful hero, Ricky Gervais as Bugsy who is hysterical as the slob friend, and then add in Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Curry, Cleese, Hurt and many others others bringing life to the birds on screen. The whole cast is fun to listen to.
The humor is a wide net of British style humor from puns to fart jokes to clever spoof to just about anything. In its way its completely different than any typical American (ie.Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks) film. Its not broad American humor, its quiet British humor with slips into slapstick. Its a Britcom versus sitcom.
Technically this film is a marvel with stuff that will put Disney to shame, and make Pixar and Dreamworks work harder. There are some beautifully rendered sequences, in particular the numerous action scenes. WOW.
The problem here is the pacing which is a tad slow. It un-spools like a British World War Two film from the period. Its not bad but it might prove taxing to American audiences who are used to faster paced comedy. However once they go to France on the mission it picks up nicely with chase after chase.
A friend asked if it was similar to Chicken Run, sort of. Both are Britsh war spoofs, but the style of humor is different and you don't have Mel Gibson bending it in the direction of American nonsense. Chicken Run is probably better but its hard to say fairly since I need to see Valiant again.
Certainly not the be all and end all I do recommend it, especially if you like British style humor.
This movie is above average, there are enough clever parts and in-jokes that adults will also enjoy it as well as kids. However, its promotion of war is somewhat sinister. The graphics are good and there are enough plot twists that the movie isn't completely predictable, it's a fairly clever and relatively unique idea. Also succeeds in creating an atmosphere of 1940s human society- in pigeons! Only slightly annoying thing is the character design, the pigeon's beaks are too short and too wide!
A lovely and surprisingly educational story about what the homing pigeons did for us during the war. Quite amazing! cute little characters with big name actors for their voices, adventure, the underdog winning, we can do anything type of story, great for the whole family.
A delightful and interesting war time story of the role of homing pigeons. I never knew so many medals were given to animals! A lovely plot with lots of humour, one kids can watch and so can big kids :) A really fun story with excellent characterization and animation. Good for a rainy day!
First impression is that this is a kids movie, but 10 minutes later your swept into the story and chuckling along like a little kid yourself. Instantly recognizable is Ricky Gervais’ voice from The Office who has toned it down a bit but does a great and natural job of playing the joker. All in all a great story for kids and adults alike.
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