Two Brothers (2004)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 88 | Rotten: 25
A charming family-friendly movie with stunning cinematography.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 7
A charming family-friendly movie with stunning cinematography.
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Like The Bear, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's acclaimed animal picture released 15 years prior, Two Brothers offers a family-friendly epic as told through the eyes of its four-legged protagonists, who, in this case, are sibling tiger cubs Koumal and Sangha. Though a life in the jungles of French colonial Indochina circa the 1920s seemed certain, the cubs are separated shortly after their birth when the notorious hunter Aidan McRory (Guy Pearce) kills their father. Koumal is whisked away to a
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All Critics (119) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (88) | Rotten (25) | DVD (17)
This is a family movie on a grand scale, enhanced by lush cinematography and throbbing music, with a minimum of dialogue and an endless assortment of thrills.
Top CriticNoteworthy because it represents a kind of fevered moviemaking insanity that we rarely see these days.
The kind of movie that kids used to flock to on Saturday afternoons in the forties and fifties.
... one of the most amazing animal adventure fables ever captured on film.
I would have gladly volunteered to lead all the tigers participating in this movie directly into the wilds, just to stop them 'acting' in this slow-moving, heavy-handed drama.
The movie can be taken as quality children's entertainment ... But the film offers much more than that.
Stunningly beautiful, but too intense for little kids.
The very definition of harmless, watchable entertainment. Exactly whether or not that is good enough depends on who you are.
I defy any animal lover not to tear up with Kumal and Sangha reunite, even if it is a little faux.
It's that rare kind of comedy -- simple humor based on personalities, behavior, and folly .... rather than forced through crass punchlines or annoying sidekicks.
[A] heartbreaking fable of friendship, family ties, and the human impact on the natural world...
Annaud's methods are misleading which undermine his admirable intent.
A fun, thoughtful, resourceful adventure for the whole family.
The overall quality and timelessness of Two Brothers will guarantee it a long future.
As with The Bear much of the plot is carried by animal photography, though this film has considerably more human plot. A good family film, and a moving experience.
It's undoubtedly good-natured, old-fashioned family entertainment, but Two Brothers never quite manages to strike a successful balance between fantasy and reality.
Although the lulled pacing of Two Brothers could put an insomniac in slumber land, the film's leading felines are more captivating than most high-paid Hollywood stars.
Watching Kumal and Sangha, some viewers may even be reminded of lines from Blake's famous poem 'The Tyger': 'What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?'
Teems with life and a rather beautiful simplicity when Annaud focuses squarely on the tiger cubs - but then the humans come crashing in to make a mess of things.
I was put off by the way the movie anthropomorphizes the tigers.
Please take your family to see this rare and marvelous movie.
The tigers are roaring but the movie is boring
Annaud's tigers are benign.
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- Zwei Brüder (DE)
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There is nothing special about 'Two Brothers', the story of lions. I find it to be one of the most irritating films of all time, considering that we have no sympathy and don't have any interest in the films protagonists. We have great actors in this film (Guy Pierce, Jean-Jacques Annaud) but the characters they play are incredibly bland, especially Pierces character, who we don't care about what he commits or what the cost of his wrongdoings are. The scenery is unbelievably and incredibly uninteresting, as it stays the same as the film progresses. I'm trying not to bash this so hard, but I just can't help myself, never has a film been so impeccably detrimentally tedious and wearisome, that I would rather watch the 'Cheaper by the Dozen' remake than watch the opening credits of 'Two Brothers' again. Not recommended.
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