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Movie Overview
Cast
• Ewan McGregor
• Hugh Laurie
• Ricky Gervais
Director
• Gary Chapman
MPAA Rating
G
Valiant (2005)

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OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten
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B-
"...Serves its purpose as end-of-the-summer entertainment for the young ones...it will likely be viewed once and forgotten in favor of other films with better repeat value."  FromTheBalcony  Bill Clark

C-
"Animated pigeons? British wartime humor? Disney? The mixture is ripe for something amiable, if unremarkable. Sadly, the production forgot the amiable part."  FilmJerk.com  Brian Orndorf

2/4
"The depth of vocal talent squandered in 'Valiant' is staggering."  eFilmCritic.com  Dan Lybarger

3/5
"This is not a top grade animated effort, but it is a sweet, enjoyable one."  eFilmCritic.com  David Cornelius

2.5/4
"A mildly engaging but thoroughly forgettable piece of work."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

2.5/4
"Lightweight and easily forgotten about once it's over. While it last, though, it is congenial and pleasingly innocuous."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

C-
"It feels obligatory, like the boss barged in and said, 'I want a movie about pigeons who help the British war effort on my desk by Monday!,' and so everyone had to do it."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

C-
"Doomed by its script to a sort of tedious mediocrity, this pigeon's as dead as a dodo."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2/5
"Tedious and unfunny computer-animated film."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

2/4
"Arguably the blandest of the burgeoning crop of big budget digitally animated films, Valiant aims to prove that the death of traditional animation has simply pushed lackluster screenplays into the digital realm."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

"Will probably keep youngsters entertained for its short 76 minutes running time."  SA Movie & DVD Magazine  James O'Ehley

6/10
"...this spunky little film doesn't let the minor matter of a bland central character and a lackluster script get it down."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

2.5/5
"I think history will remember it as the usher to the mid-list CGI feature."  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

C
"the animated tale of misfit recruits accomplishing a heroic mission lacks an integral component - humor."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

2.5/5
"Vanguard Animation anda volando bajo."  Cinenganos  Luis Martinez

"[E]xactly as cozily silly and as charmingly touching as you'd expect from a nation that gives medals of valor to birds."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

B-
"Like its title character, this little animated film has heart and charm. What it will have trouble finding is an audience to appreciate it."  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

1.5/4
"The slapdash construction and narrative inconsistencies, however, aren't nearly as damaging to this aerial adventure as the general mediocrity of its animation."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

3/5
"Pode não ser uma obra-prima (não é mesmo), mas é suficientemente bem realizado para merecer uma conferida enquanto o novo projeto da Pixar não chega aos cinemas."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

2/5
"Disney sticks to that formula of goofy nonchalance — this time without music"  Filmcritic.com  Pete Croatto

2/5
"A film with a story that little kids will find to be too obscure and older viewers will find too juvenile and which is told with a visual style that viewers all ages will find drab and uninteresting."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

3.5/5
"A disarmingly enjoyable movie with a lively cast of characters and an action-packed plot based (very roughly!) on real-life events"  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

C+
"One complaint I have with Valiant is the lack of humor – there is some but not enough for a kids’ animation"  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

7/10
"'Fall in, featherbrains!' It's a funny, high-flying, family-friendly flick."  Modamag.com  Susan Granger

0.5/4
"People who liked the Shrek flicks may actually try to prove their sophistication amongst themselves by rejecting this pale imitation of an embarrassing cultural artifact."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw
OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten
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