Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | December 01, 2005 | | Summary | Based on a True Story, Made Me Proud Though I Don't Know Why | Content
 | I sat down to this DVD with no idea what it was about other than my husband thought it looked cute. I was dubious and doubtful, but it ended up bringing tears to my eyes (although I cry easily anyway!).
This is the story of a brave WW II British homing pigeon, named Valiant, and his quest to get his message back home despite difficult situations. He is part of Squad F of the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, and after one of his comrades is trapped by enemy falcons, notably General Von Talon, it is up to Valiant to get the message home.
I had no idea that over 50% of all the medals awarded to animal war heros in WW II went to homing pigeons. I didn't even know that animals were given medals during the war, and I can tell you that I was happy to see 2 or 3 cats had received medals as well.
A feel-good movie. The French mouse Charles La Girl is a fantastic secondary character worth the price of the DVD alone.
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| Rating | | | Date | November 25, 2005 | | Summary | this movie was hollow! | Content
| The problem is not that this movie isn't a joint project between Pixar and Disney. It was pretty good in animation, but it was hollow! it made no sense! there is no plot. of course there is a plot but an extremely ridicolous one! If I were disney, I would not distribute this freak and would bury this freak for my own reputation. Dont even try to watch it. its totally waste of time and money. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 09, 2005 | | Summary | Not Too Shabby | Content
| I am a huge fan of British humor. As a Canadian, I feel a little more in tune with the British way of life, and I think that's why Valiant was so funny.
Firstly, Ewan McGregors performance in Valiant was a thousand times better than his lacklustre performance in that peice of Fox trash, Robots.
The inclusion of Ricky Gervais, still hot off his BBC series "The Office", which is now a successful NBC program, was a good choice. His attitude for the supporting role was just what the film needed. Add in John Cleese, Jim Broadbent and Tim Curry, and you have a grade-A BRITISH film. I feel it didn't hit well with "foreign" audiences, as much as it did in the UK.
Top that off with a pathetic marketing campaign, it's no wonder it didn't do well.
Now, as for any dissident critics? Meh, they're de-sensitised by Dreamworks and Fox right now, who feel they can just pop out a CGI movie every 6 months and still wow an audience.
Valiant is a good family film dealing with subjects that children never can grasp though film without being horrified. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 04, 2005 | | Summary | Worst CG Disney movie ever! | Content
| What a stinker! The writing is on the wall with this one. Disney tried to show Pixar it could do CG movies without them, and what a failure! And from the reviews Chicken Little is getting, it looks like 2 bombs in a row for the Mouse House. They seriously need to think about sticking to 2D animation, and leave the CG stuff to the professionals, or risk ruining their reputation. Maybe they shouldn't have been so greedy with Pixar's contract, & Steve Jobs could've saved them, oh well. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 28, 2005 | | Summary | Valiant Rules! | Content
| THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE IN THE WORLD SO FAR! IT IS COMING TO DVD ON DECEMBER 13TH I LOVE THIS MOVIE! |
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