Jan. 20, 2003 - 1:39 am
the classic animated film. which i had never seen before, but Donnie Darko (2001) really made me want to watch. yeah, it's spooky and violent and about rabbits with personalities, deaths, and souls. but still very cool. it has it's flaws, but overall quite cool.
this is an adaptation of Richard Adams' novel which aparently a lot of people have to read in high school. i didn't personally, have to read it, but i hear that a lot of people do. that was confirmed in Donnie Darko. but it's about a group of rabbits that can speak. actually it's seen through a rabbit's point of view, so actually all animals can speak in the story. basically there is a group of rabbits that begin to sense that their home will soon be destroyed by some unknown but very powerful forces and they choose to go out on their own and seach for a new home. they eventually fight their way to the place that they have dreamed of, but must then seach for mates (since all of the surviving rabbits are male). they end up having an all out war with a neighboring group of rabbits in trying to acquire females for their group.
like i said, this was pretty well done, but i can't help feeling that the story was just a bit rushed. it was only an hour and a half total, and it seemed like there would have been more material there somewhere. i don't know, maybe i'm just imagining things.
great animation style. i really enjoyed it. great lifelike movements of the animals for the most part. and the more abstract portions were well done also. my favorite abstract portion was the sort of musical-themed part that played to the "Bright Eyes" song along with some periodic orchestral music. very cool song, and an interesting sort of break from the more concrete action of the plot.