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80A smart, marvelously drawn account of the bravery of homing pigeons during World War II.
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75Valiant enlists a squad of loveable birdbrains to turn the classic fighter-pilot formula into an upbeat adventure film loaded with laughs.
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70While the target audience won't be as familiar with the voice of Gervais as with, say, Eddie Murphy, they'll no doubt love his dirty bird humor.
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It's a tale with plenty of spirit and a good heart, and yet, this story doesn't so much soar across the screen as it does waddle.
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63It's perhaps the first animated kids' film that can claim to be "based on a true story."
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The best sequence comes when the gang meet a saucy French lady mouse who works for the Resistance and at moments of high drama sings "Je Ne Regrette Rien" ("Ah!" your children will say. "At last, an Edith Piaf joke!")
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63Adults expecting a little bit more, "Chicken Run," this ain't.
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58Competently done and harmless enough to entertain the tots. It's just that the movie's kind of . . . sparse.
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50The visuals might be undistinguished, but the voices are excellent.
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50Despite a decent cast of mostly British voice actors and better-than-average computer animation, the movie seems rushed at 76 minutes and is only marginally funny.
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50Valiant is voiced by Robots' Ewan McGregor, an actor apparently no longer in a "Trainspotting" mood.
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50It's not as clever as it thinks it is, not as funny or exciting as it should be, and not as engaging as it needs to be to prevent kids from losing interest and parents from falling asleep.
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Valiant is weak tea next to the best of Pixar and DreamWorks.
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50The CG is on the rubbery side, and the backdrops are jarringly 2-D. But Valiant isn't so hard to look at -- it's hard to listen to.
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50The main problem with this Disney release--which also wastes the voices of Ricky Gervais and Jim Broadbent--is its refusal to recognize the war as anything but an excuse for tomfoolery.
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50The voice acting is adequate, but it fails to convey the diversity or personality of "Chicken Run" or "Shrek."
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50Given all its World War II references and parodies, the best audience for Valiant would be addled, octogenarian ex-RAF pilots in the old folks' home.
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50A mite too hard to follow for most of the kiddie crowd who'll want to see it.
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50The violence is minimal, and the humor is inoffensive enough for tots, but everything is damned soft--from the fuzzy backgrounds to the enemy's diluted Germanness.
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40A plucky little bird that just won't fly.
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40Unless your child has a close working knowledge of the role of homing pigeons in World War II British espionage, he or she is likely to be bamboozled for the duration.
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40It was made fast and cheap, which shows in every none-too-slick frame.
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40Valiant is in dire need of some "Shrek"-ian sass, not to mention a drop or two of genuine emotion.
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40Fails to get off the ground due to a by-numbers script and dodo-ugly character design.
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38The top-secret message this pigeon is carrying reads ''Wait for the DVD."
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30The movie makes use of every avian pun possible, a pattern that becomes quickly monotonous and predictable, if not contagious.
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30An unconscionably dreary and amateurish-looking thing, and the rote plot and annoyingly predictable script -- a compendium of bird puns, mostly -- don't work nearly hard enough to make up for the hammy awfulness of the images.
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the animation was cheap, but the acting wasn't bad
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Sophie6Not as bad as the reviews are saying it is. Yeah, it's not great, but it's okay for one watch. Ricky is very funny in it.
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MarkB.4