Two Brothers: Critic Reviews

Annaud and his deft production team create believable dramatic characters without compromising the dignity of the animals they've borrowed as stars.

A family-friendly movie made for the same audience that likes to imagine talking animals.

It's either a children's movie for adults or an adult movie for children, with scenes to dazzle kids and others that could make them fidgety, though never to 'I wanna go hoooomme' extremes.

I would have gladly volunteered to lead all the tigers participating in this movie directly into the wilds, just to stop them 'acting' in this slow-moving, heavy-handed drama.

The Bear was a little too cutesy for my taste, but director Jean-Jacques Annaud gets the tone right this time.

Returning to the territory of his 1989 hit The Bear, Jean-Jacques Annaud delivers another refreshingly mature fable of bestial devotion.

Although special effects and careful editing pitch in, the wild-kingdom authenticity on display is an astonishing achievement.

Two Brothers is an odd crossbreed: documentary-style nature film, broad comedy, environmental sermon and Disney wannabe. But the awesome aww-power of its irresistible tiger cubs smooths its unevenness.

The story never reaches the heart-pounding heights that Mr. Annaud so obviously intended, but there is both sentiment and fun along the way, and the feline brethren move with expected grace and majesty.

There is a lot in Two Brothers I admire. Families will not go wrong in attending this film. Some kids will think it's one of the best movies they've seen. My objections are of a sort that won't occur, I realize, to many of the viewers.

There's something simple yet miraculous about watching these beautiful animals interact with the wild and each other, even if their actions are being manipulated for the sake of drama.

Two Brothers may not be a great movie, but it's an unusually diverting episode of Wild Kingdom.

It's an unabashed feel-good film, but a surprisingly intelligent one that honestly earns each smile and every tender moment.

Those looking for a heartwarming, funny and adventurous story about wild animals will certainly find it in Two Brothers.

Anyone older than 12 can figure out what's going to happen, but the movie still packs an emotional punch that will keep adults entertained as much as the young ones.

This is a family movie on a grand scale, enhanced by lush cinematography and throbbing music, with a minimum of dialogue and an endless assortment of thrills.

Charms when the quadripeds stalk the action but creaks when the bipeds open their mouths.

You don't have to be a cat-lover to fall in love with the cuddly young tigers who star in Two Brother.

Brothers can't avoid the sappy Disney touches -- even though it comes from Universal.

The movie can be taken as quality children's entertainment ... But the film offers much more than that.

The kind of movie that kids used to flock to on Saturday afternoons in the forties and fifties.

Noteworthy because it represents a kind of fevered moviemaking insanity that we rarely see these days.

While audiences will gasp at the audacity of using real animals instead of drawings, the tale behind the technical achievement is stale and outmoded.

If you're familiar with [Annaud's] previous work you can accurately guess this venture's strengths and weaknesses.

Stunningly beautiful, but too intense for little kids.