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Watership Down
(1978)
6.75
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Plot/Story

7.00

Characters

5.00

Acting

4.00

Cinematography

10.00

Production Design

10.00

Sound

7.00

Execution

3.00

Emotional Impact

8.00

Overview: 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.

Director: Martin Rosen

Release Date: 1978-10-14

Genres: Adventure Animation Drama


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Watership down is a truly beautiful movie aesthetically. Many sweeping shots look like museum worthy art. The animation is easily ten out of ten for the style, but it shows its age with uneven animation and I noticed one instance where they didn't draw a character into a panel, so he disappears for a second and pops back in the next second. Watership down also shows its age with the sound, both in quality and the voice actors. The voices aren't particularly well done (not terrible, but not worth noting) and it sometimes sounds two voice actors are in the same recording room, but one is right next to the microphone and the other guy is 12 feet away in the corner of the room; some voices are way to muffled and quiet. I can overlook these details because Watership Down is from 1978. The story-writing, however, is inexcusable. The novel is more a series of events than a story and this film takes that idea and makes the equivalent of a greatest hits. If you haven't read the novel, I imagine this film would be hard to follow; characters have very little to no back story, the world gets almost zero explanation, and they barely even bother to transition from plot point to plot point. We rush through the story an break neck speed, and poke a few things, but don't really play through any. Either they needed to do even more cuts to the story and fully explore maybe three events or split Watership Down into multiple films. This film doesn't do the book justice and doesn't really work as a stand alone experience, the animation is wonderful, but that's really all there is.

By : Greg Mueller | Date : 5 years ago




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