vulpine massacre should have be this movie actual title . and the tag line should have read guarantee to make your kid cry . this be a nature drama tell the story of a family of wild fox in a remote region . start with the meeting and pairing of two young fox and the eventual birth of a large family and the trial of raise them . the only speaking be do in narrative by a tree that stand over the den and give insight into the animal love and life . lovely scenery and gorgeous filming of the animal . sound good huh . well from there thing go straight to hell and then start drilling towards the core . spoiler below or they it may be a warning . almost first off we learn one of the fox be bear blind . but seem to get along well enough and there a beautifully cheerful musical score to accompany him . and then he die . next we have one of the sibling adventure . and then he die . one of the sister get her screen time . and then she die . and so it go like some horrific slasher movie a one fox after another be kill off by nature and in trap and just up and vanish and and even by a bunch of snowmobile . by the end of the movie almost all the fox have be massacre . though mercifully no death be show on screen . ( least not in the version we saw . ) unlike say tarka the otter the death in this movie be almost all pointless and border on the sadistic in the way hope be build up and then snuff out . one or two loss would have be acceptable . it be a nature film after all . but not nearly the whole family . do not go to see this film deceive by the cheery box into think it safe for the kid . watch it with some foreknowledge that thing be not go to go well at all and that you or your kid may be leave feeling very badly depend on how sensitive you or they be . you may enjoy it . or you may not .