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Meet the Flockers morePlot:
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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Opening This Week: British gangsters, mock doormen, Lou Reed (From IFC. 15 July 2008, 4:57 PM, PDT)
Disney Likely To Report Big Loss (From Studio Briefing. 15 September 2005)
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Absolutely Beautiful Visuals, But Story Needed More Humor moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ewan McGregor | ... | Valiant (voice) |
 | Ricky Gervais | ... | Bugsy (voice) |
 | Tim Curry | ... | Von Talon (voice) |
 | Jim Broadbent | ... | Sergeant (voice) |
| Hugh Laurie | ... | Gutsy (voice) |
 | John Cleese | ... | Mercury (voice) |
 | John Hurt | ... | Felix (voice) |
| Pip Torrens | ... | Lofty (voice) |
| Rik Mayall | ... | Cufflingk (voice) |
 | Olivia Williams | ... | Victoria (voice) |
| Jonathan Ross | ... | Big Thug (voice) |
| Brian Lonsdale | ... | Toughwood (voice) |
| Dan Roberts | ... | Tailfeather (voice) |
| Michael Schlingmann | ... | Underlingk (voice) |
| Sharon Horgan | ... | Charles De Girl |
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76 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Brazil:Livre | South Korea:All | Taiwan:GP | Iceland:L | Netherlands:6 | Malaysia:U | Philippines:G | Portugal:M/6 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Ireland:G | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:U | USA:G | Singapore:G | Norway:7 | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | Czech Republic:UMOVIEmeter: 
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The UK's very first full-length CGI feature film. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: In the movie members of the French Resistance, play "Non, je ne regrette rien" sung by Édith Piaf. However World War II was over twelve years before the song was even written. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Lofty: [seeing Valiant & Bugsy] For a, quote, 'elite unit', unquote, they seem to be letting in anything with wings
[to Bugsy]
Lofty: , including those flies circling your bottom.
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I can see where this Disney animated feature film really never made it big-time. It offers some really good things but overall, it just isn't funny enough to be a hit.
It certainly has the visuals to be a smash. Man, this is a beautiful film. The colors are bold and brilliant, scene after scene. It's a visual feast. For that reason alone, I give it seven "stars."
Some of the humor is funny and very clever, but not enough of it. The story is a takeoff on old World War II films which kids will never "get." Too much of the gags involve slapstick as one of the pigeons flies into a wall or falls down, making a loud noise or that "Bugsy" belches and farts a lot. That happens frequently and wears thin fast. The laughs come more with the subtle stuff.
Story-wise, it's the usual little guy or misfits-being-heroes story, so common in films. Valiant is the little pigeon who really shouldn't even be in the Royal Homing Pigeon Service because he's too little, but he gets in, along with his aforementioned smelly friend "Bugsy" and then inspires everyone while also wooing a pretty nurse.
Once again, though: hats off to the artists. This is one beautiful-looking animated movie.