The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep User Reviews

Beautifully filmed and cast in a small World War II coastal Scottish village, with many moments of good humor, the movie tells of a young boy, lonely for his father away at war, who raises and befriends a mythical sea horse and through the adventure of that friendship finds hope and joy. The military action in the movie is necessary to the plot, and is limited and confined to coastal firing in which no one is really hurt.

05/22/2008, 9:50 am

I took my 10 year old sister to see this movie after we had seen the previews. My older brothers (16) and husband went to see I AM LEGEND but my sister being a scardy-cat like me, didn't want to see it. I figured this would be a good goofy movie from the previews. Boy was I wrong, this movie is a horrific version of FREE WILLY! My sister told me that see cried multiple times because the movie either made her sad or made her scared. I am appalled that a movie of this sort would be represented as a child's film.

05/22/2008, 9:50 am

This movie is horrific! Involves violence, war, and death. The previews are grossly deceiving. There is nothing uplifting or family like about this movie. Do not take small children and do not go looking for light hearted family fun. It is dark and dreary. Those that like this movie are obviously suspense and thriller lovers, which usual young children are not. None of us enjoyed it nor did the grandmother with two small children in front of us.

05/22/2008, 9:50 am

The comments by bpowell60 are 110% spot on!!!!

05/22/2008, 9:50 am

The waterhorse is just another example of the hollywood leftist agenda being indoctrinated into our children...first they spend the beginning of the movie " Humanizing " the little creature and making us fall in love and then they bring out 2 of the things any leftist hates most...The millitary and animal killers AKA hunters.This is how they teach your children to think the way they want them to...Didnt anyone see " V for VENDETTA " .The funny part is you fools pay them to socially engineer your kids..Im a hunter and still have to listen to people complain that im " shooting Bambi " KNOW what your kids are watching. They are more influenced then most of you realize...

05/22/2008, 9:50 am

The preview for "Water Horse" is oh-so-cute, but the last third of the film is remarkably violent. The cutesy pup, complete with little Shrek ears, becomes a monstrous adult; the film becomes typical Hollywood excess and stupidity, with numbskull would-be-soldiers firing machine guns and incredible amounts of artillery while attempting to kill the beast. There's a moment where the beast hovers over a man in the water; I was praying, "Please don't let my daughter see this thing EAT this man" (a la "Jurassic Park"). The sadistic, manipulative filmmakers leave us and the man hanging (from the beast's mouth) interminably before it finally throws the man to shore. Offscreen, however, the beast eats, or least kills, a dog that had tormented it when the beast was a pup. Amid all this mayhem, my 8-year-old daughter, through her tears, says, "This movie should have been PG-13!" As a father who cares, I try to carefully screen movies for my children. "Water Horse" left me furious; the preview is misleading; the movie is NOT for young children. Don't waste your time or your money, but if you must, note that kids under 12 should stay away.

05/22/2008, 9:50 am

It was very good. But me 6 year old child was so scared because of the war and people shooting at animals.She was scared

05/22/2008, 9:50 am

i hated the movie you dont have to see it.dont go see it you will never like it

05/22/2008, 9:50 am

The only good thing about this movie was Will Smith, although he should be ashamed of himself for agreeing to do it.This was a BIG RIPOFF of 28 Days Later - which was, by the way, MUCH better! Save your money and just watch 28 Days...The first half of the movie was hard to follow, having been done poorly--if you didn't see the previews would you have known clearly what the heck was going on? And the dummies - why was he talking to the dummies? Were they supposed to be people frozen by the virus? I thought everyone who got the virus became infected, not "frozen"???

05/22/2008, 9:50 am