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Two Brothers
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
|
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Alain Godard
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jean-Jacques Annaud
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 21, 2004
Video: December 21, 2004
Theatrical: June 25, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
109 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / UK |

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

80
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
The result is that virtual oxymoron, an intelligent family film.

75
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
Charming, Kiplingesque fable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The films simplest pleasure is its naturalism the illusion it creates of observing the animals undetected.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Borderline amazing and borderline dull at the same time.

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."

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.

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.

60
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Some of the film's more violent scenes may be inappropriate for young and/or sensitive children.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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