Production and art direction was good. The special effects were adequate. Warning if you like to sit right down & start eating your popcorn; the first part of the movie has lots of sloppy manure to set up the farm scene. I almost hurled! I'd say the minor roles by R.Fiennes and E.McGregor were jerky, and seemed more like cameos.
Kids may enjoy it, even to LOL a few times. However I would say this sad part was, in a word, cruel: **SPOILER** during a picnic, a telegram arrives saying that soldier Dad was killed in action --bummer! The children don't believe he is dead, so the boys visit the "War Office" to find out for sure; turns out the telegram was a forgery by Mom's evil brother so he could get her to sell the family farm. Quite shi++y for a kid's story, eh? This was a big wet blanket compared to the rest of the film's high-jinks. I almost forgot-- a stray "enemy bomb" falls into their barley field, unexploded, and the children rush over to disarm it. Good parenting. Are the kids successful, or not? I wouldn't spoil that scene for you.
Kids may enjoy it, even to LOL a few times. However I would say this sad part was, in a word, cruel: **SPOILER** during a picnic, a telegram arrives saying that soldier Dad was killed in action --bummer! The children don't believe he is dead, so the boys visit the "War Office" to find out for sure; turns out the telegram was a forgery by Mom's evil brother so he could get her to sell the family farm. Quite shi++y for a kid's story, eh? This was a big wet blanket compared to the rest of the film's high-jinks. I almost forgot-- a stray "enemy bomb" falls into their barley field, unexploded, and the children rush over to disarm it. Good parenting. Are the kids successful, or not? I wouldn't spoil that scene for you.