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Valiant

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United Kingdom, United States · 2005
Rated G · 1h 16m
Director Gary Chapman
Starring Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent
Genre Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, War

Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.

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Variety by

Fails to get off the ground due to a by-numbers script and dodo-ugly character design.

50

Village Voice by Akiva Gottlieb

The main problem with this Disney release--which also wastes the voices of Ricky Gervais and Jim Broadbent--is its refusal to recognize the war as anything but an excuse for tomfoolery.

30

Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano

An unconscionably dreary and amateurish-looking thing, and the rote plot and annoyingly predictable script -- a compendium of bird puns, mostly -- don't work nearly hard enough to make up for the hammy awfulness of the images.

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L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Unless your child has a close working knowledge of the role of homing pigeons in World War II British espionage, he or she is likely to be bamboozled for the duration.

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