Sony Pictures | 2007 | 112 mins | Rated PG | Apr 08, 2008
Video
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Audio
English, French,Portuguese: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Spanish,Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles : English SDH, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
Disc : 50GB Blu-ray Disc
Wholesome family entertainment arrives in a slick Blu-ray package.
A true tale it is…
The best thing I can say about The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is to skip right to what I normally reserve for the end of the review — I strongly suggest purchasing the movie right away on Blu-ray. Whether you have children or not, I’m confident that the movie’s magic and luster will leave even the most cynical, hard-headed, stone-hearted, tough guy feeling good by the end, having experienced one of the most magical and amazing films in decades. This is one of those movies that doesn’t feel like a movie. All the thematic elements are there, but it’s so well-done in nearly every aspect that it completely draws the audience in and the end of the movie comes as a bit of a shock, not because of anything that necessarily happens on-screen, but because of the utter disbelief and disorientation of being pulled back out of the movie and into reality. Perhaps the fastest 112 minutes you’ll ever experience in film, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep represents a new classic in cinema, a film that while not perfect masks the few flaws it does have with an abundance of magic and joy, not to mention heart and soul.
Young Scottish lad Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel, Danny Boyle’s Millions) is counting down the days until his father returns from fighting the Germans at sea, a day that, regrettably, will never come. A boy now both fascinated and horrified by the water, he one day discovers an odd, egg-shaped object on the beach. Soon enough, it hatches in his father’s old workshop, and from it emerges a creature Angus cannot identify from the books located in the family library, but names “Crusoe.” All Angus knows is that it enjoys raw potatoes and seems to need water. Providing for its needs, he feeds the creature what he can scrounge up and eventually transplants it to a tub in a spare bathroom from the old metal rubbish pail it has suddenly outgrown. Soon, the Scottish Navy arrives to board in and around the house to facilitate the creation of a perimeter to defend against German encroachment in the waterways near the house, as does a handyman named Lewis (Ben Chaplin, Murder By Numbers) who befriends Angus, discovers the secret of the creature in the bathroom, and sets out to educate both the audience and Angus as to what exactly it is. Angus and Lewis must protect the creature from all of the dangers of the world, from a zealous bulldog to the entire unit stationed at the house, a group of soldiers on-edge and with itchy trigger fingers, waiting for anything out of the ordinary to attack.
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