Two Brothers (Full Screen Edition)

This movie is beautifully done. Adults as well as children will thoroughly enjoy. I've watched it several times and will continue to do so.

I saw this movie and simply don't understand why people wouldn't love it. Tigers (with a single G) are the soul of this movie and I was moved the same way The Bear touched me... This is a movie I would reccomend to everyone.

This is a very well done movie indeed. Well cast and written. The tigers are the true stars. And their filming actually makes you feel as if they are conveying their feelings and thoughts to you. Grab the whole family and watch this. Now this is not a disney film, it is what I feel to be an accurate portral of tigers and their interactions with people in 1920's indochina.

The movie does have you empathize for the tigers. But it is not a biased presentation. The movie does impart how dangerous they are...it just does not use the blood and gore of most films to inform us of this. We all know that tigers are predators and it is us who wander into their homes to start with.

In this move we follow the lives of a family of tigers, the two male cubs to be precise. They are happily living within an old temple ground when our human star, an adventurer/hunter, enters their home trying to steal steal statues from the old ruined temples. He ends up killing their father and capturing one of the cubs. Our hunter adopts the cub, only to lose it to a circus. Later while taking the Prince of the country hunting, they find the other cub. This cub ends up in the Princes private zoo.

This is an epic film which I plan to watch again. It does want to make you champion the cause of such a great and noble beast.

I caught the end of this movie on cable and was entranced, so when it came round again I happily sat down with my kids (7 and 5) to watch it all. Well, okay, I didn't expect my autistic son to pay much attention, but I thought it would be fine family fare for the rest of us.

What a shock!

This is an excellent film, but it is essentially historically accurate in that in the 1920s most people were both ignorant of and brutal to most animals, especially "wild beasts." I will say right now my daughter demanded to know why some people were treating the animals badly. The movie does not at all encourage people to treat animals poorly; but by merely showing and not preaching, my daughter got a powerful message about our responsibility for our own behaviours. She spent a lot of time afterwards talking about how people need to learn about animals before doing things with them or to them.

But what really startled me was my son's reaction. He started off not paying attention, leaping around the room playing with a Star Wars toy. There is a scene where one cub is trapped in a box on the back of a truck, and the mama tiger comes galloping to try and rescue him. My son suddenly dropped his toy and began yelling excitedly, "Go mama go mama!" When the rescue failed, he burst into tears and was almost inconsolable. Star Wars forgotten, he remained glued to the film, clutching a tiger toy he had never cared about before.

He absolutely got that these tigers were family, and the pain of separation, and the joy of reunion. It is a deeply moving film. We went through most of a box of kleenex watching it.

I can't emphasize enough the sheer beauty of this film, the degree to which the music supports but never takes over, the delicate pacing of the story -- exciting moments but none of that unrelenting hyperness of most "children's" movies.

Some people have complained that it gives an exaggerated idea of tigers, in that it took 30 tigers to do all the stunts, or that it's too sentimental because it doesn't ever show tigers as mean. Actually, there are scenes where it is demonstrated how dangerous the tigers are (no gore, but kids get the idea), and one of the concerns expressed repeatedly by the humans -- even the ones who like the tigers -- is that they are wild animals, and as such can't be taken for granted or presumed to be safe. Personally, I felt the movie -- given the necessities of film making, such as multiple tigers -- was pretty honest about tigers. The whole point is to let the tigers be tigers, in their own habitat, not to be either vicious or sentimental about them. And frankly, most tigers don't go around mindlessly attacking anything that moves out of blood-thirstiness. They don't attack each other for entertainment, unlike the humans who force them to. Tigers are predators, not monsters.

This is not a movie one could put on and let young kids watch by themselves. They need their parents around to clutch and cry with and laugh with. But that is well worth doing! It is a wonderful experience, and can generate a lot of conversation afterwards.

Now... will "Duma" play anywhere we can see it on the big screen?

Two brothers is not a movie that has actors, come in to do the voices of animalks, and have them, laughing, talking, dancing, singing, these are real animals that don't speak, and it is rare to see one of these films. The movie is about 2 tigers that are brothers, their names are Sangha, and Kumal,. The movie opens with literary adventurer Aidan McRory (Guy Pearce), who has made a discovery that leads other to disturb the nest of tigers, one of them is adopeted by Aidan, and is named Kumal. He is arrested, and released by governor (Jean-Claude Dreyfus). And Raoul (Freddie Highmore), finds the other tiger and names him Sangha, but as tigers do, get to wild and is given to a Prince (Oahn Nyguen). This movie will be frighitng to very young kids, so please don't let them see the film, the movie is rated Pg, for mild violence, and the Movie Mom this this for the audience of 8 and up, but you never know, a film could come out with real animals like this, would be good for all ages, so please parents don't let kids younger then 8 watch this movie, but then it should be fine for them to watch.