Valiant
by Gary Chapman
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Actor: Ben Kingsley, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, Ricky Gervais, Tim CurryDirector: Gary Chapman
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Writer: George Melrod
Writer: George Webster
Writer: Jordan Katz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 76 minutes
Published: 2005-12-01
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
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- The whole world is looking for a hero, and it's up to a little pigeon named Valiant to step up and bravely serve his country. Valiant (Ewan McGregor) and his fine, feathered friends take to the sky on a wing and a prayer to prove that it's not your wingspan but the size of your spirit that truly counts. Together this rag-tag squadron of birdbrains engages in hilarious aerial adventures at
Movie Reviews of Valiant
Movie Review: VALIANT SAVES THE DAY
Summary: 5 Stars
Homing pigeons get to be the heroes in Disney's VALIANT, a charming and entertaining addition to the Disney library. Valiant is a young pigeon who wants to join the Royal Homing Pigeons Service to help the Allies in WWII. Despite his diminutive size and relative youth, Valiant heads off to London and meets the cunning pigeon Bugsy, who signs up to avoid a confrontation with two of his marks. They all go through the rigorous training with expected hilarious antics and then they are called upon for a very special mission by General Gutsy himself. The pigeons must face the deadly falcons, headed by the notorious General von Talon, but all comes out for our side in this enjoyable movie. The voices are all fine from Ewan McGregor as Valiant to Ricky Gervais as Bugsy and fine support too from Tim Curry as the villainouw Talon and John Hurt, Hugh Laurie and Jim Broadbent. The animation is marvelous with each bird having almost human faces and the colors are vivid and alluring. Kids and adults both should find VALIANT princely fun.
Summary of Valiant
The whole world is looking for a hero, and it's up to a little pigeon named Valiant to step up and bravely serve his country. Valiant (Ewan McGregor) and his fine, feathered friends take to the sky on a wing and a prayer to prove that it's not your wingspan but the size of your spirit that truly counts. Together this rag-tag squadron of birdbrains engages in hilarious aerial adventures at a spitfire pace. From the first bumbling day of basic training through the final feather-raising mission, the flock of comical characters swoops their way toward victory. From the producer of SHREK and SHREK 2, VALIANT delivers stunning animation, a top-flight voice cast, and an action-packed story loaded with laughs. It's a soaring family comedy that truly earns its wings.~A host of great British thespians, from Ewan MacGregor to John Cleese, lend their voices to Valiant, a computer-animated bird's-eye-view of World War II. Valiant (MacGregor, Big Fish, Down With Love), though but a small pigeon, is determined to join the homing pigeon brigade and do his part to help win the war. He and a handful of other misfits are assembled into a motley squad and suddenly find themselves thrust into combat with the responsibility of delivering a crucial message. Unfortunately, the villainous Von Talon (Tim Curry, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), a Nazi falcon, intends to tear them to feathers over the English Channel. Aside from some delightful voice work from Ricky Gervais (The Office) as a filthy but cunning pigeon, there's not much to recommend about Valiant. The story is clunky, cliche-ridden, and underdeveloped; the design is charmless and inexpressive; the characters are so generic that even a cast as talented as Jim Broadbent (Topsy-Turvy, Iris), Hugh Laurie (House), and John Hurt (1984, The Elephant Man) can do little to make them anything but bland stereotypes from a long-exhausted movie genre. Overall, poorly conceived and clumsily executed. --Bret Fetzer
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