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This woefully underappreciated piquant film was created by the team tedious the improbable Watership Down. The account concerns a pair of dogs, Rowf and Snitter, who run from an animal-testing lab in the wilds of England and their attempts to survive in a frosty and hostile world. Rowf and Snitter traverse the wilds and encounter both a fox named The Tod who trains them in the ways of being wild and humans who are either horrified of them or try to hunt them. The film is excellently captivating and touches on themes of friendship, bravery, and animal rights. The ending is very absorbing and always makes me shed a scramble or two.
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Many talented people lent their skills to this movie. Martin Rosen, also the creator of Watership Down, led a team which took almost two years to painstakingly craft this masterpiece. Among the actors who gave vocal performances for The Plague Dogs are John Harm, Nigel Hawthorne, and Patrick Stewart as an army major. I was even surprised to spy Brad Bird’s (creator of The Iron Giant and The Incredibles) name in the credits as an animator!
Unfortunately, while the film itself is big, this DVD leaves a dinky bit to be desired. The movie is presented in its North American edited length of 85 minutes. There is apparently a longer 99-minute chop available on DVD from Australia, but only in PAL video format. The film itself looks in exquisite superb condition for being almost 25 years obsolete. Other than Scene Selection and Interactive Menus (as if those even count), the DVD is devoid of any special features. Another feature lacking on the DVD that I do miss from my ragged VHS copy is closed captions or subtitles. I have a itsy-bitsy worry making out some of the difficult British Isles accents, especially from The Tod and the sheepherding dogs.
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I highly recommend that fans of adult, drama-oriented animation (and Watership Down fans in particular) check this one out. Despite its barebones DVD presentation, it’s a large, distinguished film that deserves to be seen. I give the film 5 stars but subtract 1 star for the lackluster DVD presentation.
I don’t really have a lot to add about the film itself that the other reviewers haven’t already said; this is a shadowy, distressing, relentlessly grim and harrowing film about two dogs on the hasten from an animal research laboratory. It has a somewhat stupid amble at times, and considerable of the animation is improper by today’s standards, but it has tons of character. It’s not exactly a wonderful experience but it has tall power and a worthwhile message. Honest to form it sure (if it isn’t already), this is ancient material only qualified for older teens and adults.
I actually honest wanted to address a couple of points in a previous review (possible spoilers coming) . The novel film, released in the UK in 1982, was 1 hour 42 minutes – this is the plump, unedited version which can ONLY be found on the Australian DVD release (the quality isn’t substantial, but at least you’re getting to peep the whole film) . The contrast in running time (99 mins on DVD as against 102 mins in theaters) is simply down to the fact that films race slightly faster on VHS and DVD than they do on the huge screen; ALL films are approximately 3 – 4% shorter when transfered to home entertainment formats.
When it came time to release the film in the USA, director Martin Rosen had tall distress finding a distributor willing to capture it on. That shouldn’t near as too mighty of a surprise; the film is far too disturbing for kids or families, and adults are likely to dismiss an interesting feature with talking animals as kids’ stuff – so who exactly would pay to peep this movie? In an wretchedness to placate the distributors, Rosen was forced to prick 17 minutes from the film’s running time. Some of the cuts were simply made to race up the meander, and others were made to bewitch some of the more poor scenes (most notably the behold of a human corpse which the starving, desperate dogs have partially eaten) . Needless to say, these cuts did tiny to lighten the film’s grim tone, and it only ever received a brief and extremely miniature race at a few US theaters. Unfortunately, it is this shorter version that has been primitive for most of the unique DVD releases; as I mentioned before, only the Australian edition has both versions included.
There were some changes to the space in the transfer from recent to camouflage. The somewhat forced but nevertheless welcome gay ending in the book was removed, to develop the film a more grand anti-vivisection statement. Also the fate of the fox, or The Tod as he is known, was changed; in the book he falls victim to a hunt, whereas in the film he sacrifices himself to a pack of army hounds as a distraction, allowing the two titular dogs to hasten (temporarily) on a impart. This was NOT changed due to any pressure from pro-hunting groups; neither Richard Admas or his admirers would have tolerated such a go. I imagine it was changed to allow the Tod’s death to play a more notable allotment in driving the status forward, and to explain us the wily fox was a worthy fellow in the raze.
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