WATER HORSE-LEGEND OF THE DEEP (DVD/SPEC EDI/2 DISC/FF 1.33/WS 2.40 A/FR-BO DVD

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
A lonely young boy vows to protect the rapidly growing hatchling that emerges from a mysterious egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch in My Dog Skip and Tuck Everlasting director Jay Russell's screen adaptation of writer Dick King-Smith's popular children's novel. Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) has made a most unusual discovery, and he's about to find out just how one innocent boy's greatest fantasy can also be a frightened adult population's greatest threat. Unable to identify the egg that he found while walking the sandy shores, Angus is even more perplexed about the discovery and the creature that emerges resembles what comes to be known as a Water Horse, which Angus names Crusoe. As the bizarre new life form begins to grow at an alarming rate, it soon becomes obvious that Angus will not be able to keep it a secret for very long, and the young boy will have to do some seriously quick thinking if he is to keep his new friend safe. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast Emily Watson as Anne MacMorrow Alex Etel as Angus MacMorrow Ben Chaplin as Lewis Mowbray David Morrissey as Capt. Hamilton Priyanka Xi as Kirstie MacMorrow Marshall Napier as Sgt. Strunk Joel Tobeck as Sgt. Walker Erroll Shand as Lt. Wormsley Brian Cox as Old Angus Craig Hall as

Crew Simon Bright - Art Director Brad Mill - Art Director Dan Hennah - Supervising Art Director Susie Figgis - Casting Liz Mullane - Casting John Bloomfield - Costume Designer Vincent Lascoumes - First Assistant Director Jay W. Russell - Director John Mahaffie - Second Unit Director Mark Warner - Editor Jay W. Russell - Executive Producer Charles James Newirth - Executive Producer James Newton Howard - Composer (Music Score) Denise Luiso - Musical Direction/Supervision Tony Burrough - Production Designer Oliver Stapleton - Cinematographer Douglas Rae - Producer Charlie Lyons - Producer Robert Bernstein - Producer Barrie M. Osborne - Producer Philip Thomas - Set Designer Dave Whitehead - Sound/Sound Designer Tony Johnson - Sound/Sound Designer Augie Davis - Stunts Coordinator Robert Nelson Jacobs - Screenwriter Terry George - Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy - Screenwriter Stephen Rosenbaum - Visual Effects Supervisor Weta Digital - Visual Effects Supervisor R. Christopher White - Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Winquist - Visual Effects Supervisor Michael Hedges - Re-Recording Mixer Tom Johnson - Re-Recording Mixer Jason Canovas - Supervising Sound Editor Dave Whitehead - Supervising Sound Editor Dan Hennah - Set Decorator Dick King-Smith - Book Author

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Make no mistake about it: the world was ready for another Loch Ness monster movie. Of all the stories from our collective mythology that were dusted off in the early 21st century, this was not one of the ones that seemed like too much of a stretch. Whether it should have been a kids movie is what's debatable. For the best return on the mystery surrounding Scotland's version of Bigfoot, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep should have gotten the M. Night Shyamalan treatment -- at least, the version of Shyamalan that's more eerie and unsettling than overblown and overwrought. But since this film is an adaptation of Dick King-Smith's children's novel, the creature is followed from its infancy, where it's like a rambunctious CGI seal -- splashing around in bathtubs, getting chased around the house by bulldogs, and emitting precious bleeps and gurgles. That too could have worked -- after all, the kids love the bleeps and gurgles. Unfortunately, escaping discovery is not the creature's biggest problem. The Water Horse finds its antagonist in a British military unit, improbably stationed on this loch as a cowardly means of avoiding real conflict during World War II. Naturally, the unit's first instinct is to test its most ferocious artillery on the loch itself, leaving poor Nessie to dodge incoming warheads. Fresh off the success of The Chronicles of Narnia, Walden Media was never going to make a Loch Ness monster movie that didn't involve an adorable young British lad (Millions' Alex Etel). But more effort could have been devoted to the narrative inhabited by that monster, regardless of what the source material dictated. Kids aren't likely to mind, but it's the ability to transfix the adults that ultimately determines whether a children's movie is transcendent, or merely adequate. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel Additional Features: cc Deleted scenes Behind-the-scenes featurettes: Myths and legends, the story, the characters Setting the scene Water work: creating the Water Horse creating Crusoe DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1: 2.40:1 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard MPAA Rating: PG DVD Discs Included: 2 DVD Sides: 2 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 112 min   DVD Chapters: Disc #1 -- Water Horse: Legend of the Deep 1. Chapter 1 [3:54] 2. Chapter 2 [2:06] 3. Chapter 3 [3:53] 4. Chapter 4 [3:39] 5. Chapter 5 [1:58] 6. Chapter 6 [3:30] 7. Chapter 7 [3:44] 8. Chapter 8 [2:17] 9. Chapter 9 [2:32] 10. Chapter 10 [4:12] 11. Chapter 11 [2:13] 12. Chapter 12 [3:29] 13. Chapter 13 [2:13] 14. Chapter 14 [4:39] 15. Chapter 15 [3:26] 16. Chapter 16 [5:34] 17. Chapter 17 [3:07] 18. Chapter 18 [3:17] 19. Chapter 19 [2:48] 20. Chapter 20 [5:28] 21. Chapter 21 [4:14] 22. Chapter 22 [4:34] 23. Chapter 23 [3:56] 24. Chapter 24 [3:49] 25. Chapter 25 [5:09] 26. Chapter 26 [4:03] 27. Chapter 27 [5:39] 28. Chapter 28 [12:05]