Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

martin-fennell Charming film has smashing performances from Wild and Moody. Some touching scenes, but then there are others that are just too twee.. That's Hollywood Irish for you.The song "you don't have to be Irish to be Irish" might embarrass some natives of the emerald isle. Maguire overacts. One to curl up by the fire on Christmas day to.

Jonathon Dabell In the late 60s and early 70s, when cinematic boundaries were being pushed back, there were people working in the film industry who seemed to wrestle with a guilty conscience. To understand what I mean, look at the movies that some stars and directors made immediately after they had courted controversy in their more risky films. Soon after the extraordinary outcry that surrounded the graphic violence of 'The Wild Bunch', William Holden appeared in 'The Christmas Tree' which was one of the most lachrymose family movies of all-time. 'Wild Bunch' director Sam Peckinpah also mellowed out for his next film with the light-hearted and extremely gentle 'Ballad Of Cable Hogue'. Another director who had ruffled a few feathers around that time was Ralph Nelson, whose brutal 'Soldier Blue' had pushed the envelope further still, most notably in its infamous blood-soaked massacre. What did Nelson do immediately after 'Soldier Blue'? He made 'Flight Of The Doves', such a juvenile-orientated piece of blarney that it's hard to believe the two films could have been made by the same man in the space of a year. You can almost sense Nelson saying: "look, I know I roughed-up the industry a bit with my last movie… so here's something sweet and sentimental that all the family can enjoy". This film is the cinematic equivalent of an apology. Its main weakness is that it is actually too safe, too childish, too sweet-natured for its own good.Finn and Derval Dove (Jack Wild & Helen Raye) are a couple of young kids living in a working class English town with their cruel stepfather. They dream of moving to Ireland to join their grandmother O'Flaherty (Dorothy McGuire) on her picturesque farm. One evening, the two youngsters decide that they've had enough of their abusive home life so they run away from their house, planning to escape to Ireland. Around this time, their sinister Uncle Hawk (Ron Moody) – a master of disguise - arrives on the scene, plotting to kill the two children so that he can claim the sizable inheritance he stands to receive if anything happens to them. The Dove children make it to Ireland and have various adventures while searching for their grandmother's farm, pursued all the way by the law, their despicable step-father and the murderous Uncle Hawk.'Flight Of The Doves' is loosely based on a popular novel by Walter Macken. The child actors are OK, albeit a little wooden, while the adult stars tend to mug their way through their roles. Moody in particular gives a desperately uneven performance, often behaving as if he's in an end-of-term pantomime (an acting style which may well work on stage, but proves frequently embarrassing under the glare of a movie camera). The film is perfectly enjoyable for children – anything with a plot about kids running away from cruelty and injustice makes an appealing premise for a family flick. It's not badly handled overall, just never truly magical in the way any family film should aspire to be. A couple of scenes seem utterly out of place – one is the 'You Don't Have To Be Irish To Be Irish' march which apes 'Consider Yourself' from 'Oliver!' without much success; the other is a frankly annoying comedy sequence involving a chase through a series of doors, reminiscent of something that Harold Lloyd or the Keystone Cops might have done, but desperately ill-fitting here. All things considered, 'Flight Of The Doves' is a harmless and inconsequential enough time-filler which kids will enjoy, though the sickly-sweet mawkishness might prove a bit much for the adults.

thomandybish This British-made film cast from the Disney mold has a brother(Jack Wild) and younger sister fleeing their loutish stepfather in England to find their grandmother in Ireland. Along the journey they are assisted by a motley assortment of colorful characters, and are pursued by a menacing relative(an uncle, if I remember)who believes their appearance will deprive him of an inheiritance. The uncle, played by Ron Moody, affects a series of disguises to trick the kids, but always gets the shaft. A beautiful soundtrack score enhances the film. Not readily available, so catch it if you can on television.

shiralee I first saw this film when I was about 5 or 6 on tv,and it stuck in my mind.Sadly I never got to see it again until 3 years ago when sky tv showed it.It was just as good as I had remembered it.What I really like about it is its not a silly kids film, it is sensible yet still has a little comedy element to it.It is about two orphans who run away from their cruel step dad.They run away to Ireland to try to find their grandma.Also coming after them is their uncle Hawk who wants to kill them, so that there grandfathers inheritance will pass to him.I can't praise this film enough, the acting is superb and the soundtrack is also brilliant.It really is an underated cinema gem in my opinion.It has to be one of my all time film favourites.Please see if you can.