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Summary: Powerful animated movie
Review: A few days ago, I finally managed to watch the popular anime title Grave of the Fireflies. While I considered it to be a good animated movie, I was disappointed by the apparent lack of true drama. With Watership Down, however, we get something powerful. While I don't consider mindless violence to be drama, here the violence actually works because it represents the hardships these rabbits have to endure. Everybody acts realistically, and everybody makes the experience enjoyable, especially the haunting Fiver. And with this movie, you can't actually say the animation is bad because the surrealistic quality makes the movie that much more haunting. It just wouldn't be the same if the movie didn't have the bleeding fields or Captain Holly's nightmare or the sad but powerful "Bright Eyes" sequence. While uninitiated adults won't want to see an animated movie, and this is certainly not a movie for kids, those that have seen this movie have seen something, in my opinion, epic and powerful and genuinely sad. The ending is also something very different, neither a happy one nor a sad one. That is something you won't see in any Disney movie, with the possible exception of The Fox and the Hound. Truly a gem of an animated movie. I consider Watership Down to be the anime of western animation, and it is many times better than most anime movies I've seen.
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Summary: Animated classic
Review: A simply awesome animated film based on Richard Adams's great novel in which the lifes of rabbits are used as an allegory for Human society, Watership Down tells the tale of a group of rabbits who's home is about to be detroyed and how they must find a new place safe from their enemies. They eventually find a new place, but there are no female rabbits to start a new burrow. So, the rabbits go out in search for females and end up having to fight the dictatorial, rabbit General Woundwort (voiced by Harry Andrews). This is probably one of the best animated film ever made. Both adults and children will enjoy this. The comic relief is provided by comedian Zero Mostel (in his last role), as the voice of the looney Seagull, Kehaar. The film is full of famed British stars, doing the voices of various characters, amongst them John Hurt, Denholm Elliot and Ralph Richardson. Watership Down is a great film that should endure for a very long time.
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Summary: Excellent movie, not just for children!
Review: An excellent movie! A bit violent in spots, so watch it before you let your kids watch it, but an accurate microcosm of human behavior. To quote R. M. Lockley in "The Private Life Of The Rabbit", "...as we will see, humans are so rabbit."
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Summary: Watership Down
Review: This is one of the best movies for rabbit lovers. Keep in mind that unlike the rabbits in this film, American Cottontails do not live in warrens; the rabbits in the movie are English rabbits, like many of our domestic rabbits. Lovers of other animals, and plants, of the English countryside will also enjoy this film. There are a few scenes of blood and death, hence its PG rating, but these scenes are definitely not overdone. The plot is far more moving than many other animations, and the music, both instrumental and vocal, is superb. If you have not read the book yet, see the movie first, read the book, which the author, Richard Adams based partly on the true lives of English rabbits, and see the movie again and again.
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Summary: If you liked the book you'll love the movie!
Review: I first saw this movie as a child, then read the book. Amazingly enough, it is true to the book with little or no "poetic licence". It is not a children's story, however. It can get quite graphic for the littler ones. Still, it is a classic and a "must have" for any fan of '70s cartoon movies.
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Summary: For Frith's Sake
Review: One can only imagine where novelist Richard Adams conjured up his ideas for this intriguing story. He often said "Watership Down" blossomed from the many bedtime stories he told his children. Regardless, it is a brilliant introduction for young readers to some of the unpleasent (as well as pleasent) realities of life. The book is sensational in how it establishes an entirely believable world as would be seen and lived by wild rabbits (albeit rabbits with some very human traits, like intelligence, but let's not be picky). This fantasy world is complete with societies based on organizational structure, discipline, and even religion (there's even a leporidaen version of Noah's Ark...a real treat!) Sadly, it is impossible to make an animated adapation of the novel without losing so many of the wonderfully unique aspects of the book. Yet, Martin Rosen does a faithful job in reconstructing the basic story line so that fans are not likely to be disappointed. Children ages 6 and up should be able to watch and enjoy the film (I first watched it when I was five). However, I would urge parents to be present with their youngest to help them understand some of Watership Down's harsher elements. The movie's strongest attributes are its beautiful music (scored by Angela Morley), fine character development, and the unique animation style of the short story that opens the film. Less impressive are the editing blunders, such as when the voice of one rabbit (Silver) is mysteriously replaced with the voice of another (General Woundwart). Still, a very fine adaptation.
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Summary: pretty good, a little
Review: If you have not read the book yet, and want to know wether it's good or not, see this movie, unlike some movies based on books, this is alot like the book! in fact, it is simply a version of the book without all the unneccesary descriptions, poetry, writing of things that had nothing to do with the story, description of rabbit's mating habits and passing of droppings, and other things that made reading WD just a little unpleasant. So if you like the movie a little and want more, then read the book.
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Summary: Any cartoonist would like it!
Review: Hi, I want to be a cartoonist and this is my childhood favorite movie, Watership Down. I seen it when I was a kid atleast when I was probably atleast ten. Now I am 16 and I still like it. I hope to get the movie for myself. The book is good but I would watch the movie before I read the book because it's kinda confusing and I can picture it in my mind better with the movie! I also found in a article that mostly people with a cartoon taste would like it. You got drama, music, sadness, friendship and care! Sure it got lots of blood but it's nature! I am a nature type person and I love cartoons! If you love cartoons and nature, I can assure you, will love this movie!
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Summary: Wonderfull movie
Review: This happens to be one of the best animated movies that I have seen. It is a beautiful tale about a band of rabbits that leave their warren in search of a safer place to live. It is full of issues that we as humans deal with, and is an overall touching movie. I wish I could give it 10 stars!
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Summary: The greatest cartoon on film
Review: How can one not adore this film? The animation is stunning, the music is beautiful, and this film is filled with a brilliant cast of characters that one cannot help but love. The screenwriters were also very faithful to the original novel by Richard Adams. This is one of the great animated classics, and an example of what we have lost by overuse of computer animation. See animation in its purest form in Watership Down. And the story is darn good too, but that goes without saying.
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