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Two Brothers

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Two Brothers reviews
63
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Based on 27 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Adventure  |  Drama

Written by: Alain Godard
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 25, 2004
DVD: December 21, 2004

Running Time: 109 minutes, Color

Origin: France / UK

Summary

RATING: PG for mild violence

Starring Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Freddie Highmore, Oanh Nguyen, Moussa Maaskri, Vincent Scarito, and Maï Anh Le

An epic adventure of discovery, survival and wonder, this is a fable about twin tiger brothers born in the wild that become separated as cubs, raised in captivity under completely different circumstances and then reunited as adults when they are pitted against each other in a fighting arena. (Universal)

What The Critics Said

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90

LA Weekly Walter Chaw

Annaud presents a meticulously structured fable about the importance of family, particularly the relationship of fathers and sons, to both man and beast.

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88

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

There's something simple yet miraculous about watching these beautiful animals interact with the wild and each other, even if their actions are being manipulated for the sake of drama. Annaud has taken his film's message to heart: He knows when to get out of nature's way.

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83

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

That Annaud and his deft production team create believable dramatic characters without compromising the dignity of the animals they've borrowed as stars -- is the striking (and sometimes unnerving) achievement of a film that also swoops and loops through fairytale hoops.

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80

Village Voice David Ng

As in "The Bear," Annaud eschews animal voice-over and visual F/X in favor of live, almost wordless action. The result is the humanization of animals and the animalization of humans.

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80

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Tigers are such rare and beautiful creatures that you could just film them running around an enclosure for an hour or so and many would pay to see it. Annaud adds much more, and has made a compelling story that's truly for the whole family, without being overly sentimental.

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80

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Only the tigers, beautiful and dangerous, maintain their integrity. By staying true to themselves, they make nothing else matter.

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80

Chicago Reader Hank Sartin

The result is that virtual oxymoron, an intelligent family film.

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75

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

Charming, Kiplingesque fable.

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Alan Niester

The kind of movie that kids used to flock to on Saturday afternoons in the forties and fifties.

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75

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Annaud is a filmmaker who often works with a bare minimum of dialogue. Yet his storytelling is so strong and emotional that words are barely necessary.

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75

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Watching them, you realize how far computers still have to go in accurately depicting the play of muscles as beasts run, crouch and leap. Though Annaud doesn't cut to them for cute reaction shots, as weak directors do, the tigers show near-human fears and affections.

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75

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

The animal action is often gripping and suspenseful. As a whole, a giant step beyond Annaud's earlier animal movie, "The Bear," a more gimmicky film of 1988.

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70

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Yes, it's all terribly hokey. But once you accept the premise as a conceit that allows the director, Jean-Jacques Annaud, to offer an intimate, utopian vision of the animal kingdom, Two Brothers succeeds as an inspirational pastorale and passionate moral brief for animal rights and preservation.

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70

Variety Derek Elley

Combo of some stunning animal direction (courtesy of ace trainer Thierry Le Portier) and exotic period setting somewhere in French colonial Indochina charms when the quadripeds stalk the action but creaks when the bipeds open their mouths.

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67

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

In the best tradition of Annaud's work, Two Brothers works as an engrossing outdoor adventure and quasi-documentary.

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67

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

The film’s simplest pleasure is its naturalism – the illusion it creates of observing the animals undetected.

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63

USA Today Mike Clark

Borderline amazing and borderline dull at the same time.

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63

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The result is a reassuring fairy tale that will fascinate children and has moments of natural beauty for their parents, but makes the tigers approximately as realistic as the animals in "The Lion King."

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63

Miami Herald Peter Debruge

The movie's ''bless the beasts and the children'' moralizing is simplistic and skews a wee bit too young, but it's hard to fault a film whose greatest vice is sentimentalizing an animal humans have pushed almost to the brink of extinction.

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63

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Honors the power and beauty of these beasts even as it underscores the cultured savagery of the men who are crowding them out.

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60

TV Guide Angel Cohn

Some of the film's more violent scenes may be inappropriate for young and/or sensitive children.

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60

Empire Nick De Semlyen

Good-natured, old-fashioned family entertainment, but Two Brothers never quite manages to strike a successful balance between fantasy and reality.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

The result is schizophrenic, an uplifting film that's truly depressing, a movie about cruelty that tries to be fluffy.

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50

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Despite the cunning mixture of live-action footage and animatronic effects in Two Brothers, there's more imagination and wonder in a good old Sabu picture like "The Jungle Book" (1942). Two Brothers is more like a tacky jungle comic book.

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40

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

The tiger footage in Two Brothers would make for a solid nature documentary, but because the animals are shoehorned into a narrative, they've been anthropomorphized to death.

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30

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The story, which features an apparently lobotomized Guy Pearce as an opportunistic explorer and hunter who learns the errors of his ways, is deeply dull.

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30

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Unless you're a lover of tigers, there's probably no reason to see Jean-Jacques Annaud's Two Brothers. And maybe not even then.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Anthony D. gave it a10:
I my Self found the movie to be first class and well done it helps to eduacte people about tigers and why they should be protected. The Acting was excellent by all the cast as well as the tigers them self if you have never seen this video I can recconend it to all you will love it.

Jose H. gave it a9:
The best of the film was the tiger's acting. The story was great and the cinematography was brilliant. The score was sweet. I only gave it 9 because Guy Pearce's acting was horrible!

Peter J. gave it an8:
Great movie. I got it for my three year old son and he loved it. A lot of people say it isn't for kids because one of the tiger's gets killed. Every Disney movie ever made follows the same premise. Besides that the story line was great, and the cinematography was excellent!

Gabriel D. gave it a10:
The movie had a great plot and It wasn't evien Computerized Who ever thinks this movie is bad then I don't Know what their smoking!!

Winnie gave it an8:
Very well done, but parents of children who are sensitive to animal cruelty beware that this may be a tough one for them to watch.

Ilze S. gave it a 10:
Wow! This is one of the best movies ever. Not like other movies. The tigers are great, super!

Chad S. gave it a 5:
"Two Brothers" might've worked better had only one tiger been captured, so we'd have one less subplot, thus less people who hog the screen. The same tiger could've absorbed a loving relationship with a percocious English lad, do a stint at the circus, be the property of Asian royalty, and go gladiator against another tiger. What if the second tiger was captured deeper into the film for the climactic blood match? Their reunion might've been less hokey. "Two Brothers" starts to really unravel when the film grows aggresively comic as the tigers paint the town orange. "Two Brothers" lacks a consistent tone, which dilutes the impact of the film's anti-hunting message, because the tiger who delivers it, seems more like a method actor than a wild animal, at times. I think the screenwriters let the animal trainers down.

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