Sara's Move Review Hut!! Episode 3: Return of the Lunatic...This week's entry: Valiant -- ABCra XYZee

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Date Posted: 00:41:57 09/16/05 Fri
Author: Sara Ebert
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Sara's Move Review Hut!! Episode 3: Return of the Lunatic...This week's entry: Valiant

Disclaimer: These are merely my own opinions, please do not flame me, unfriend me, give me a wedgie or anything similar, but do feel free to try and change my mind. I am not affiliated with any movie reviewer or studio.

So I'm back everyone with another fun movie review for you all. ~crickets~ Please try to contain your enthusiasm...Okay so here's the backstory. Last night (Thursday) I took my Little Sister to see Valiant at the multi-plex (mainly because it was the only G-rated movie playing and I refuse to take this 7 year old to anything else no matter how much she pleads) So without further ado, here we go with my review of Valiant.

Quickie synopsis:
Taking place in Europe during WWII, this cinderella story about messenger pidgeons focuses on Valiant, a runt of a pidgeon who desperately wants to become homing pidgeon for the Allied Forces. He teams up with a group of quirky but rather dim-witted messengers and they find themselves right in the thick of things after they are recruited as the final hope of getting an urgent message from the French resistance to the Allies.

Little Sis's take:
She liked it. Thought it was really funny.

And what you came here for...My take:
Okay...I do admit that Valiant was cute in a "never really want to see it again" kind of way. It was fun while is lasted, but I'm sure I'll forget half the plotline by afternoon today. It was unoriginal and predictable, and while most of the time I don't mind predictable, this movie just didn't make any sort of lasting impact on me. I guess with me the only time predictable will work is with romantic comedies.

Another con of Valiant. This movie is a strange mix of kid humor and adult historical references. It is very hard to determine just what audience they were going for here. I know my Little Sis said she liked it, but I just know from looking at her face that a lot of the war references (i.e. Allies and Normandy) just went right over her head. Kids her age know very little to nothing of WWII so I fear the movie lost a little of it's kid appeal there. And what the kids find funny is almost sure to turn the adults off in return (Sorry, regurgitated worm and fart jokes just lose their humor as you get older) These are just not easy genres to mix, kids movies and WWII movies, and I think it showed in Valiant.

Valiant wasn't a disappointment (I wasn't really expecting much from it in the first place) but overall the only possible way you'll go see this movie is if you have a kid who wants to see it. Even then it's almost not really worth the $12.00 you paid to get both yourself and child in. See it if you must (you'll live through it, trust me) but avoid if you can. Overall, I give Valiant 2.5/5 iced teas with funky little umbrellas in them.

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[> I'm not sure such a film should qualify for any funky umbrellas........maybe an ice cube....... Just Like Heaven is on my viewing guide for tomorrow---I hope it's better than pigeons -- C, 22:21:53 09/16/05 Fri [1]

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[> [> I'm going to see the matinee for Just Like Heaven this afternoon so hopefully I'll have a good movie review sometime this weekend... -- Sara, 11:47:09 09/17/05 Sat [1]

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