Watership Down (1978)
Directed by Martin Rosen
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
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These story elements help make the world of The Jungle Book more than just an exotic setting; it’s a cultural world unto itself, with broad rules and local subcultures, like the farmyard world of Babe or the leporine world of Watership Down .
Set in Japan in the near-future, the vibe is more Watership Down than Disney-Pixar, so little ones might find the thematic (and sometimes onscreen) brutality and occasional bit of gore upsetting.
The dissociative identity disorder-suffering serial killer Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy, TV’s “Watership Down”) – also known as The Horde – is still at large in Philadelphia.
For the third Planet of the Apes film – and final, at least in this current iteration – director Matt Reeves has swung out on a limb again to deliver a clever, well-acted summer blockbuster which is an involving cross between a classic Western revenge and a war movie, dropping somewhere between The Searchers, Platoon and Watership Down , if that can be imagined.
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A couple of years later, the animated version of Watership Down—a far more “grownup” production than the Hobbit film—had me confronting serious questions about life, death, war, sacrifice, and the afterlife.