an animated lexicon of wwii clichés for toddler who have yet to rent where eagle dare or battle of britain . in an attempt to breathe life back into england legendary ealing studio and the british film council align themselves with disney and john m. williams and producer of shrek to form vanguard animation . poise to become europe first full scale digital animation studio and their inaugural cgi feature be the $ 40 million adventure tale of valiant and a traditionally diminutive disney lead whose effort on behalf of the royal air force home pigeon service make him a hero . if you must make a film about winged creature during the war and pigeon be the obvious choice . not ranked high on the list of favorite animated specie and pigeon do make brief ( and sultry ) appearances during the war in a pair of first rate warner bros. propaganda cartoon and spy and plane daffy . anthropomorphic superstar heckle once tell jekyll ( or be it the other way around ) and be cartoon character . we can do whatever we want . the same can not be say of these salt tail pigeon . aside from personification and there isn not much they do that couldn not be accomplish with trained and live action carrier . the majority of the gag be dialogue driven and the limited visuals and awash with hideous pastel and on par with disney tv . at it best and classic disney represent childhood primer on adult neurosis . hey kid bambi sure be cute and but guess what . just like bambi mother and your mommy be go to die and although chance be it would not be from a hunter bullet . check out disney on the front line dvd collection . education for death be as harrowing a any live action propaganda . if only the fledgling studio hold true to it name by herald even a slight anti war vanguard . it be bad enough that so many depends wear american back bush and do we really need a recruitment film for the papmers generation . i have be obsess with american studio animation for long than i care to recall . bug and daffy and betty boop and donald duck can all out act keanu and bennifer and antonio and julia . on their bad day and tex avery and bob clampett and dave fleischer and walt disney drew circle upon circle around ninety percent of today cgi whiz kid . their be cartoon storytelling at it fine represent inventive and resourceful and time to the millisecond . the question of whether they be draw for moppet or adult with adolescent longing be moot . kid deserve quality multiplex fodder as much a their parental guardian . when ask his target audience and animation guru chuck jones reply and we make them for ourselves and hope that if we like it and everyone else will . be from the old school and i experience wet eye when news break that disney put an end to hand drawn animation . ( i can see disney famous nine old men terminal at their terminal . ) this be not to say that all cgi lack imagination . pixar a bug life and find nemo do uncle walt justice . nor be it a case of the incompetent craftsman lay blame on his toolbox . valiant have all the right ingredient save one represent imagination . that what make disney summer 2005 offer a less than valiant effort .