I notice the run time according to IMDb is 109 minutes in the U.K. but only 75 minutes in France and 76 minutes in the U.S. What?!? That's a tremendous amount of movie to be cut! Does anyone know what was cut? Or is that figure of 109 minutes for the U.K. not correct? In any case, expect a lot of negative feedback from movie audiences in the U.S. if they're stuck paying full price for a movie which lasts just over an hour.
Yeah, why?
That dosn't make sence!!!
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Who knows which running time is correct. IMDB has made mistakes. It is possible that sense this is a British film that there were jokes that only the brits would understand or find funny.
As far at the running time being 76 minutes thats a life time for animated movies. Very few Disney animated movie has been over 90 minutes.
Snow White: 83 minutes
Bambi: 70 minutes
Pinocchio: 88 minutes
Lion King: 89 minutes
Beauty and the Beast: 84 minutes (Although lengthened to 90 minutes for a Special Edition)
"Why aren't they longer?", quote from unknown executive from United Artist (Walt Disney Pictures original distribution partner)
"You cannot hold a child's attention for more than 90 minutes.", quote by Walt Disney (The artistic quote)
"At $100.00 per minute of animation [1930's/40's dollars] you cannot make a animated movie longer than 90 minutes.", quote by Roy Disney Chef Financial Officer of Walt Disney Studios (The money quote)
I don't know; if they're cutting it because of the Brit jokes, then I must say that it's sorta annoying. If that's the case, I hope we'll get the longer version on DVD.
shareThe 109 minutes must be a mistake. The Times of London review from when it was released in the UK back in March lists it as 78 minutes long.
shareI saw a sneek preview in Canada and we estimated it to only be 60 minutes long (before credits). 70 minutes max. It didn't feel overly short though.
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If they cut out all the good British jokes, there's no way I'm seeing this. I want to see it for British humor.
If you're mad when you're pissed off, does that mean you're happy when you're pissed on?
I enjoy good British humor but sadly this movie had none, atleast none in the 72 min version I saw.
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IMDB is wrong with Run time:
From bbfc -- the british ratings board:
VALIANT Feature
Film
Classified 07 March, 2005 . Run Time 75m 59s
Advice for consumers
Concise Contains mild peril
The main spoken language in this work is English.
The BBFC has placed this work in the ANIMATION genre(s).
When submitted to the BBFC the work had a running time of 75m 59s.
The running time of this film was calculated from the measured length of 6838+8 ( feet + frames ).
This work was passed with no cuts made.
At the time of classification Entertainment Film Dists Ltd was the distributor of this film.
Directed by Gary Chapman Producer(s) John H. Williams
The cast for this work includes: Ewan McGregor (voice), Ricky Gervais (voice), Tim Curry (voice), John Cleese (voice), John Hurt (voice), Jim Broadbent (voice), Hugh Laurie (voice), Rik Mayall 9voice), Olivia Williams (voice), Pip Torrens (voice).
its simple. the yanks have very short attention spans, thats why.
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I must say, that is a complete and thor----OOOOH, SHINY RED BALL!
shareHey you can not mock us li.. OOOOh, A QUARTER!
sharehahaha, good thing I'm an Australian...i have a long attention spa.....A FLUFFY DOG!
Phoebe:Bing, what an unusual name
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Pfff....the MTV generation. Back in my day, kids wou....OOO! LIGHT BULB!!!
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that evil monkey....
shareNo evil monkey is from family guy, Zim has the horrible monkey; to quote Hamstergeddon:
Zim: What are you watching?
Gir: Angry monkey.
Zim: That's one horrible monkey.
Gir: mhmmmmm... where's Ultra-PP?
Zim: He's working.
PS: This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R didn't exist.share
DH (British) thinks that in Britain they are obliged to report the running time from the movie start time - i.e., including all the previews. If you are in the US and you check the times, a movie billed as a 5pm start time actually doesn't start until about 5:20; the rest is all previews.
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....u ruined it!
Phoebe:Bing, what an unusual name
Chandler:You should meet my uncle Bada...I'll let myself out
Perhaps there were scenes they had to delete in order to it to hit theaters in America and then DVD/video. Who knows?
shareI'm kinda glad Valient was short. I didn't enjoy it too much. Just not my kind of movie, I guess.
My reason as to why animated films run shorter than live action films is because animation took more time and/or money, but I'm not sure if that's the REAL reason. I've only just assumed. Like with the now-obsolete hand drawn cartoons, they took several years to produce and CGI isn't really cheap. So ya. I'm not sure though.
Anyhow, I also had to comment because your subject is my username and I just found that amusing. (I've had this username for about 4 years. it's lame).
in reply to why shoshort^^^
i think the quote someone posted by walt disney - the master of family movies saying that u cant hold a kids attention span for more than 90 minutes is true
did u ever go to the movies wen u were a kid - for me wen i went to see jurassic park in 1993 i was 6 and cudnt keep still i loved dinosaurs and yet in the movie i was hopping from chair to chair and running wild i cudnt sit still after about an hour of the movie - the same with my nephew