The Valiant Pigeon Movie is a 2007 American-British computer animated 3D adventure comedy drama fantasy film directed by John Lasseter and Mark Andrews, produced by Brenda Chapman and Don Hahn and story by Tab Murphy.
It stars the voices of Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Michael Clarke Duncan, Sam Elliott, Willem Dafoe, Ben Kingsley, Jim Broadbent, Bruce Greenwood, Geoffrey Rush, Julie Andrews, John Leguizamo, Rupert Everett, Richard E. Grant, David Koechner, Bill Murray, Alfred Molina, John Cleese, Ray Winstone, Pip Torrens, Hugo Weaving, John Hurt, Kevin Pollack, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Laurie, David Hyde Pierce, Richard Carter, Mickey Rourke, Liam Neeson, Tim Curry and Olivia Williams.
The film was only featured in the country of Britain in London where the film had set. The film was also premiered in the USA from September 4 to October 12, 2007 and released on November 9, 2007. The film had success an opening weekend at the box office.
The film was also distributed by UTV Motion Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures.
Plot[]
In London, on July 1914, Three pigeons were delivering messages to sergeants to the pigeon warriors. The RHPS deliver messages on 1936 when the bombs hit in World War II known as WWII, the brave flyers delivering in 1918 when the pigeons save lives of brave wars in Britain.
Valiant, a little pigeon was born and the animal friends seems to like him. He was a little on the outside and heart on the inside, when he signed up at the war. He met Bugsy and three pigeons inculding Lofty, Toughwood and Tailfeather. The Sargeant teaches five pigeons to war the game in which they save lives, the pigeon meet the pelican named Nigel, an Australia pelican who taught the bravest heroes how to fly.
When the training begins, the gang started team up when the Sargeant tells them to get ready. Gutsy, Sargeant's mentor, tells this message to deliver that the five become his supportwing. They head to the plane and the pigeons say farewell to everyone when they headed on.
The war begins with the plane and the bombs exploded and attacking the plane when the fire spreads the engine. The gang escaped, but Gutsy wasn't so lucky, He died when the plane fell and expoldes into flames leaving the gang to defend ourselves. Valiant heads to the building with the members and see the burnt building. Once they head in, the Falcons, led by General Von Talon, chase them and the gang hided.
The pigeons flee to get away from the villains, Dag, a coyote, Specs, a wolf, Claw, a wolf and the leader is Phango, a leopard and with the help of some mouse named Charles De Girl, they entered France. When they flee the attic, Valiant is captured by some humans and taken to an unknown house in a cage.
Valiant meet some friends inculding Sal, a crow, Peter, a shrimp and Snakey, a snake. They bump into some human named Charming, who captured Valiant earlier. Bugsy and the gang went out to find him.
Cast[]
- Ewan McGregor as Valiant.
- Ricky Gervais as Bugsy.
- Sam Elliott as Old Eagle.
- Willem Dafoe as Sal.
Production[]
Soundtrack[]
Trivia[]
- The film was shot in London in the country of Britain where pigeons won the war in real life. For instance, most animals are popular with humans.
- In March 2006, Disney/Pixar release a special teaser trailer for The Valiant Pigeon Movie to show before Cars during its initial theatrical release. The preview was later shown screenings of Barnyard and Happy Feet.
- This was Trevor Rabin's first animated feature score outside of action films.
- Disney asked John Lasseter, director of Pixar films, to direct this film. Lasseter directed the film when he got the choice to do.
- Originally, the film was going to be released on June 29, 2007, but it was pushed back to November 9, 2007 to avoid the date to Ratatouille.