Website review: The Water Horse - Circvs Maximvs
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uriel1998 discovered 7 months ago- From the page: "The Water Horse This is a kid movie. It is definitely aimed at the 8-14 set, and my son aged 10 adored it. It definitely captured his budding cryptid interest, and has set him in search of the book the movie's based on and all other things Nessie. This did not need to be a kid movie. This could have been the movie that straddled the gap between Narnia and Pan's Labyrinth. It would have been a delight, with a strong central plot and lots of character development among the secondary characters. The visuals are good, the water horse well realized. The background - well, it's Scotland. Craggy and beautiful. Except some film idiot got a hold of it. The movie, if just a shade darker, could have the same inspirational notes and themes. The same imagery, the same tonal moods in both score and visuals. There is a place near my home that makes wonderful homemade old-style pies. She does not use the filling that is in a jar; there is no syrup in her apple pies. There is one drawback to her pies: After you've eaten one, you can tell when a can of goopy fructose is used to substitute for inferior ingredients or skill. This movie could have been great, but I could not help but be annoyed at the heavy saccharine glaze. It was a little too obvious - the music swells noticeably when it's inspirational, the lightning flashes on the antagonist's face a little too cartoonishly. It is like taking a delighful pie and dumping fructose on it, like taking a natural beauty and covering thier face in cake makeup, like a finely crafted tiramisu and covering it in hot fudge. Don't get me wrong - the goodness in all of those things does show through. It's a movie well worth taking your kids to, both to spur thier interest in things unusual and to have a fun time. It's just a shame that this movie wasn't made to its full potential - still accessible for kids, but not leaving adults with a saccharine aftertaste. Grade: B"
