Some reviews ago I lamented how bad the CGI effects were in 10,000 B.C. This movie was exactly the opposite. The CGI was fantastic. And the rest of the movie was also.
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) is a fun, smart family movie, with lots of metaphor that can keep adults thinking, and lots of entertainment for both kids and adults.
The story is set in Scotland during WWII, in a town near Loch Ness. A young lonely boy, missing his father who is a sailor, finds an interesting oval shaped object on the shore of the loch. Sure enough, it is an egg. And what hatches out of that egg looks like a cross between a sea lion and giraffe. And has the charm of an ET and a Shrek. And it grows bigger every day.
Reading a review by Roger Ebert, he mentions that the movie does not dumb down the kids, and I agree, that is what makes the movie so good. The kids are not stereotypical movie kids, not wise cracking brats, or dumb little props for the movie plot. These kids are like real people--confused by adults, and their own feeling.
The plot of the boy, Angus, and his friend the water horse, who he names Crusoe, is charming, and derivative of ET. But it does not copy, nor is it crass in its emulation. It is endearing in its own right.
This is a pretty darn good movie. The characters are great, the acting is great, the effects are great, the location is great. It is not just for kids, adults will enjoy it too. I wish they would make more kids movies like this.
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