Also, on Blu-ray: "War Horse: The Journey Home" and "An Extra's Point of View" featurettes. DVD extras: "War Horse" and "The Look" featurettes. Contains intense sequences of wartime violence.
#THE REAL WAR HORSE DVD MOVIE#
Spielberg has created an appropriate showcase for the magnificent creature that emerges, one that recalls the great movie horses of yore in a story guaranteed to pluck, grab and wring viewers' hearts, but thankfully not break them.
More crucially, Joey proves to be a thoroughly charismatic protagonist. With its bucolic vistas, soaring music, high-keyed lighting and magical plot convergences, "War Horse" would be too grandiose and simplistically fablelike to take were it not for Spielberg's masterfully constructed set pieces and the consistently steady human performances. When World War I dawns, Ted sells the horse, this time to the British forces, a stint that will send the steed on a punishing odyssey through the war's bloodiest battlefields. When Ted's landlord demands funds he's due, it looks as if the family will have to sell Joey - until Albert coaxes him to plow an entire rocky field. When Albert's father, Ted, unexpectedly buys Joey, at first the boy is overjoyed. The plucky steed is named Joey, a spirited colt admired from a distance by an English farm boy named Albert. "War Horse" (PG-13, 146 minutes, DreamWorks/Disney): Man's inhumanity to man is examined through a boy's mystical connection to a horse in Steven Spielberg's stirring, expertly manipulative adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel.