2005 · family · animation · adventure
Valiant
Directed by Gary Chapman1h 16m2005
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
Our read: Valiant (2005) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · animation · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured family / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
- funny
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“You want brisk WWII pigeon adventure with British voice-cast banter.”
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