At first, it is difficult to discern the unrealized courage in the main character - the frail English pigeon Valiant, who risked joining the Royal Postal Pigeon Service. The namesake of one of the Knights of the Round Table, who can barely lift a barbell, is still allowed to participate in this task: to deliver a dispatch from France to London about the opening of the Second Front of World War II. In the path of a pigeon with a modest wingspan stands a flock of taloned German hawks - an obstacle, of course, a minor obstacle for a short one striving for real glory.
The difficult task of pleasing both ours and yours (we are talking about an audience of primary school age and their patient parents) is managed by debutant director Gary Chapman to somehow resolve almost until the middle of the film. Unfortunately, Valiant's sweetheart - a nurse named Victoria, a fascist hawk humming Wagner, and an English pigeon cooing with all his might "Rule, Britannia!" in the enemy cage, the director's imagination is exhausted. Then Gary Chapman leads somewhere completely different steppe - with the languid representative of the Resistance dubbed “Charles de Girl” and the transcendental episode when, to the Piafian grazing in “Je ne Regrette Rien”, French mice kiss English pigeons.

As is usually the case, the domestic viewer was deprived of an additional bonus in the form of voice acting. In the original, Valiant's stupidity is voiced by actor Ewan McGregor, who is played along by not the least English comedians from "Jeeves and Wooster" and "Monty Python." The only unconditional thanks to Mr. Chapman should be said for one circumstance - his debut is pleasantly short.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

Tim Burton filmed the classic tale "Willy Wonka" by the master of black humor Roald Dahl, with Johnny Depp in the title role. The author of "Big Fish," "Sleepy Hollow" and "Planet of the Apes" has presented in great detail the world of an eccentric chocolate manufacturer.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a family film that is wholesome in every way. Moms will immediately stop hitting their children as soon as they see Johnny Depp on the screen. Fathers will be distracted a little later, when chocolate manufacturer Willy Wonka pulls off a win-win marketing campaign, forcing the whole world to buy his chocolates in the hundreds.

The reclusive confectioner promised a tour of his factory to those who found the tickets included in the chocolate bars. They went to: little Charlie from a poor family, gluttonous fat man Augustus, capricious little princess Veruca, ambitious athlete Violet and arrogant computer genius Mike. With these embodiments of vices, the boy Charlie, not distinguished by anything except his good disposition and a sincere smile, sets off on a journey through the sweet country. But the sweet life does not change the heroes; they swear, slander and play dirty tricks. Only in the chocolate country they can’t get away with it, one by one they leave the factory. In the end, only Charlie and his grandfather are left with Willie. And then it turns out that guide Willie’s only goal was to find an heir for his confectionery empire. This is what good-natured Charlie becomes.

"Valiant: Feathered Special Forces"