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Summary: do not show children
Review: I remember watching this movie when i was 4 and 6. This movie gave me nightmares till this day. I remember just seeing a picture from the movie or book and it gave me chills that scared the hell out of me . Im 25 and I decided to just look at the web sights to see if I can over come this fear of a movie. It helped to just look but I dont think I will ever watch the movie again. Its way too bloody and the rabbits look like evil rats that drool. kids should not watch this they will be scared of this movie.The idea of it is good but they should of never made the movie. If adults like it thats great im just saying that this movie should be rated for kids over 16.
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Summary: movie ain't the book
Review: I saw the movie after reading the novel and falling deeply in love with the characters. I searched the net and found that there was in fact a movie and searched for it in all the video stores near my house. When I watched the movie I was impressed by the realistic quality the rabbits are given but disapointed by the butchered story line. I would still recommend this movie to any true lover of the great novel, for the sheer joy of watching characters come to life on screen rather than in ones mind. I only wish a true longer version will come out one day using all that movie magic has to offer.
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Summary: beautiful
Review: They say this movie isn't for small children, and in many ways it isn't, especially for those who are particularly sensitive or easily frightened. That being said, I've ben watching Watership Down since before I can remember, and although I found some sections scary, in general I was wrapped up in the totally convincing world of the rabbits. The Animators and writers have created a literate, honest and beautiful film, where friends may die because of enemies who can be confronted but equally because sometimes the world is like that. "All the World will be your enemy" says the sun God in the creation Myth which opens the film, and it is evident throughout that the rabbits do indeed live perilous lives. But rather than taking it, they fight back with cunning and tricks, thay confront their fate and chose a new path. This solid, positive message is well told in a believeable world of totalitarian dictatorships, prophecies, myths, fatalistic aristocrats, german seagulls, cats, foxes and dogs.
As for the animation, it is not perfect, but captures the mood of the film, and created rabbits who move like rabbits, not like small hairy people. There are some truly disturbing hallucinagenic sequences, and some beautiful ones, notably the accompliment to "Bright Eyes". The high and lonely places, misty mornings, oppressive forests and sweeping countryside are beautifully realised, and give a coherent setting for the events of the story.
A perfect place to start for those who tink all animation is Disney.
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Summary: A must see for all ages
Review: I just want to respond to all the reviews that say this movie is not for children. I saw this movie when I was four and have remembered it since. I never found it scary! As a child who grew up in the early 80's on the Discovery channel, and epsiodes of The Trials of Life in the 90's, I understood death. I do not feel this movie should be hidden from young children. I think they need movies like these to keep them real. Forget about the Disney movies that show us everything is alright in the end. Children will love this movie and the images of it will stay with them at least until adulthood, since I am now 20 and recently re-watched this classic. I hadn't seen it in about 10yrs and felt the need to share the experience with a friend who was simply speechless at what he saw. Okay, so my parents thought I was nuts for loving this movie so much as a child and always jumping up and and down at the video store to rent it. They thought it was too scary, but I'm so happy they never decided to get up and turn the video off (back then there were no remotes for VCRs). I can't imagine childhood w/o Watership Down and The Secret of Nimh who's dark story telling give children a break from sudsy bubble gum Disney movies. (Except for the wonderful end scene in Sleeping Beauty, which others might also see as too scary for children). My point is, although the animation in these movies wreaks of the 80's limitations, there is something about this mode that aides the animator in leaving their mark. Creating some powerful, memorable images that last for decades. Don't deny you child this. I believe these movies started my appreciation to crave something more in a movie and a book than fun and a happy ending, but to crave stories with challenges and myths, death and sadness...In other words, something real.
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Summary: A movie throughout the ages
Review: This movie is one my parents bought for me when I was around 12 or 13 and it has stuck with me since. I would recommend this movie though to children a bit older than younger. This isn't a Disney movie and there is blood, however there is also kindness and a comfort to this movie as well. I have purchased the book recently as well as the movie to show my son, he's 9. It seems that alot of movies and tv shows these days are bloody and violent and this movie is mild (if that extreme) in comparison. Just because it's about rabbits doesn't make it cute and cuddly movie for young children. There is a moral and an idea that goes with it.
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Summary: Not for children
Review: I saw this movie years ago on channel 7. It disturbed the hell out of me. Not for children by any means. I rented it a few years ago, and it still had the same disturbing effect on me. It's about rabbits fighting for their territory and sharing the earth with man. Bloody, violent, will leave you disturbed for days after. I just get a cold feeling when I see this movie. I tried to read the book, but it was futile. The producers of this movie followed this up with a just as disturbing,"The Plague Dogs". Rent this movie only if you are extremely depressed. Different for its time. Very anti-disney. I haven't seen anything like this since.
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Summary: If you love your kids, keep this far far away
Review: Let me explain something. This movie is the scariest damn movie ever. Bunnies trying to claw each other's eyes out is not cool. happy bunny blood, people. Am I the only one horrified by this? HAPPY. BUNNY. BLOOD. To whoever was behind this: What the hell is wrong with you? Music by Art Garfunkel.
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Summary: Hauntingly Beautiful
Review: When I was very young, perhaps 3 or 4, I saw this movie and I cried in fear and sorrow, yet I kept returning to it. It was mezmerizingly beautiful, with animation that captured the essence of the stories and visions. Simple, bright, what really struck me was how closely the animated legends resembled thought, that they seemed as natural as thinking. I had many eerie, wonderful dreams of rabbits dancing in the sun. All the visual peotry captured me far more than any Disney kiddie flick with caricatured animals, and I became very thoughtful and insightful. At such a young age, whatever I saw made a huge impression on the rest of my life, and I think "Watership Down" set me on the track to where I am today.
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Summary: Scary but a good movie
Review: I saw this movie when I was 5 and it scared the heck out of me.. I saw it again at 16 and it still scared me.. but then I read the book, and while the book scared me, the movie didn't anymore and I thought about it and realised how good both of them were. It is an excellent story about rabbits, their stories, their myths and the hardships that they have to deal with every day of their lives. It brings you into the rabbits' world so completely. Rabbits are not all soft and gentle they live in a ferocious world and have to fight and run and outsmart their predators to survive. The story is very good and so are the characters. I highly recommend this movie, although not for little kids because it might be too intense and scary for them."All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you.."
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Summary: An animation calssic !!!!
Review: An amazing story thats haunting, beautiful and mysterious. I recommend this animated story for children and adults. Its timeless and smart. Animation thats excellent with a story that is in my opinion a masterpiece. An animation classic !!!
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