Peter and the Wolf (2006)

Right, before I start on my own opinion and everything else, I am just going to briefly explain to you what this film is about and its plot.

In the middle of a dark and dangerous forest, lies a little cottage surrounded by a huge, towering fence. This is where Peter lives with his grumpy grandfather. His grandfather will not let Peter go out into the forest. Peter has only one friend, the lovable duck. A bird with a broken wing arrives in the back garden. The bird is desperately trying to fly again, and with many attempts, he does. (I am not allowed to tell you how or when in the film because no spoilers are allowed. And, anyway if you spoil the film for someone, that means they don't need to watch it and it also means that you are a rubbish reviewer because you have spoiled the film for someone else.) Peter then tiptoes into the cottage and reaches over his sleeping grandfather and his devious, fat cat. Ever so carefully Peter takes the keys to the gate...

I found this film incredibly boring. Despite all the amazing animation effects and the inspirational storyline, Peter and the Wolf just didn't do it for me.

It seemed interesting how they used music to express the emotions of the characters and emphasize some of the more dramatic scenes by having a completely different tone of music to the more happy scenes, but as I must say again, this film just didn't do it for me.

So, you must be wondering, why is she going on about how the film just didn't do it for her? Well, here you go. I don't like this film because, for me, it lacked one of the most important things in a movie: speech. I could say communication or sound, but that would be untrue. You see, the characters did communicate. They signalled to each other and it was good and clear signalling because we could understand what each character was saying and what was happening in each scene.

The music in this scene was so complex I think it deserves a whole paragraph. Just for music. This whole film had music in it. And, not just music, Sergei Prokofiev's classical orchestra's music was playing!!

Each character had a specific sound or music track, so when that character walked in to a scene, that music would start playing.

The genre of this film is I suppose a sort of mild adventure and mildly action-packed, because of something that happens to the duck that is supposedly to violent for children under a certain age.

Although in lots of aspects this is a family film.

Peter and the Wolf was set in Russia and there are 4 adaptations of Peter and the Wolf.

So the end of my review, the summing up part, is that, well, despite all the good things about this film, everything just wasn't enough to bring it back up. I give Peter and the Wolf 2/5.

I recommend not to watch this film because you may also get bored like I did, and wished you had spent your time doing something more eventful!!