There’s a reunion scene in this movie that was so obviously going to come, and I wanted it to come and I knew it’d make me cry, but I had no idea quite how much. This movie in various places reminds me of a whole range of movies, from Spirit to The Fox and the Hound. Yep, most of the movies Two Brothers is reminiscent of are animated. The live action animal work in this movie is one of its greatest achievements. It’s full of many of my favourite scenes of the year so far: the reunion scene tops the list, I think; one of the young tigers hiding on a small boy’s soft toy shelf and grunting when discovered comes a close second. Some will complain that the movie preaches: it has a couple of screens of text at the end saying about how we’re responsible for saving the animals etc. But you know, I don’t know if you can call this stuff preaching. It’s like calling Fahrenheit 9/11 preachy. When something’s so important, preachy seems like the completely wrong word. I don’t imagine anyone in their right mind could watch Two Brothers and merely shrug when they’re told of the slaughter of animals. It reminded me of my favourite line in Blueberry, which I saw recently, “Animals are beasts, but men are monsters.” Beautiful movie.

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