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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Live • NTSC In Theaters : 21 June, 2004 DVD Release : 07 September, 2004 |
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Pride description Lions speak with British accents while struggling with self-identity and turbulent relationships in this enjoyable--if sometimes scientifically questionable--live action drama. Combining documentary footage of a Tanzanian pride with tame lions and Jim Henson animation, the film tells the story of rebellious cub Suki (voiced by Kate Winslet) who wants to be a vegetarian and keep prey as pets, and her tentative brother Linus (Rupert Graves) who must learn to protect the pride. While its often cloying dialogue is aimed at young children, the 90-minute film may not hold their attention and some of the naturally violent lion life may be too much for them. Although the single lion death is discreet, there is plenty of fighting, hunting, and carcass-chomping. References to mating and nursing may also be too blunt for some parents, making it best for children ages 6 and older. --Kimberly Heinrichs |
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| This film is awkward and bizarre. How can I begin to rate it? Okay, so the lions' mouths look like they're moving. Fantastic that someone could film all this with real lions, and get them to stand in all the right places. I'm sure the lion trainers did a great job, that it was hard to do this etc. But as a film...It's more as if someone taped their own bizarre commentary while they were watching a documentary. Something about the way the voices are all coming from the same plane, as if the speakers are all standing right next to the microphone. You don't get a sense of distance, either from the sound or the video. I'm not a filmmaker, but it's lacking something visually--the visuals should help build the plot, and instead they are sort of window dressing. There is very minimal music, which is odd, and seems to slow the pace considerably. The plot is a vehicle for trendy societal issues, and it doesn't match the visuals at all. There doesn't seem to be any humor, and it desperately needs lightening up. The lions are hard to tell apart. Then, even though it's not rated and I found it in the children's section of the library, there's a lot of adult humor and even some anthropomorphic sexual situations. A documentary on the life cycle of lions is one thing; sticking modern British/Hollywood cultural mores into the mix is another. Who is the intended audience for this? My complaint is not with the story so much as with the entire way in which it was brought to life on screen. I think I have a new favorite all time worst movie. Ugh! | |
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