Monday, April 14, 2008

The Water Horse


Well, to start things off, I've just recently watched a movie entitled "The Water Horse" and it says, "How do you keep a secret this big?". The thing is, it is really big. Want to know what is big and what's the secret? Keep reading guys.

"The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" is a story based on a novel written by Dick King-Smith. It is story about a little boy name Angus MacMorrow(12) who lives with his mother, Anne and elder sister, Kirstie in a small village in Scotland near the Loch Ness. The movie starts off with Angus staring into nothingness by the seaside, imagining himself walks up to the water from the beach and suddenly drowned. He managed to pull himself together though and starts wandering off searching for nice and beautiful sea shells. That's when everything starts to change, he found a mysterious looking egg buried among the rocks and manage to bring it back home where he placed it in his father's shed/garage.

The egg then hatched during night time and Angus had trouble finding the creature or named Crusoe a place to hide from his mother and other people. The next day, Lewis Mobray who is a handiman taken by Angus mother to help them around the house. This adds up another problem to Angus who is trying so hard to avoid Crusoe from being detected by his family, Lewis and the soldiers who came to live at his house during the war. The soldiers had came to protect the Loch Ness from the invasion of the German submarine. Eventually, Crusoe had been discovered by Kirstie and Lewis. Angus had managed to make them to keep a promise by not telling a soul about Crusoe.

Their journey went on, having a Crusoe as big as a house and eventually Lewis and Angus had to move Crusoe to another place where it can't be easily spotted which is in the loch. Angus was of course sad and frustrated because he had to leave his one and only friend in the loch. Soon, he went out to the middle of loch and starts searching for Crusoe. What he hadn't in mind is, Crusoe is not the kind of little animal where you can hug and cuddle like a teddy bear anymore. Crusoe had grown so large that it can carry Angus and take him to a journey to the bottom of the loch.

Soon, the soldiers had made their preparations for the German encounter. They had built a canon for the destruction of the German submarines and a really big net at the entrance of the loch. One fine morning, the general had invited the whole MacMorrow family for a demonstration of the canon that they had built. Of course, Angus who knew that Crusoe was in the lake was very worried. The soldiers then fired the canon and the explosion barely miss Crusoe by inches. Angus ran down to the loch in search of Crusoe with Lewis by his side and found out Crusoe to be very angry. During that time, one of the soldiers had managed to get a glimpse of Crusoe and decided to hunt the creature down.

Well, I can't tell the whole story to you or else it won't be as exciting as watching it. I found this movie to be really interesting with great animations and storylines. I'd give it a thumbs up for those who are well into fiction stories. It's enjoyable to those young ones also, so don't forget to bring your little brothers and sisters or even your children.

Enjoy~

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