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.
…there is simply no version of reality where anyone, least of all me, walked out of that trailer three months ago expecting to compare this film to “Babe,” “Watership Down,” or even the holy grail of modern family cinema, “Paddington.”
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.
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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.
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.