A tough move to judge by todays standards. It's a beautiful touching yet simple and predictable movie about a dogs love for its family, showing that the power of love is stronger than the will to survive. In message this movie should get a clear 10 as there is a lot of heart in this movie.
The fact it is in colour and has beautiful scenery also add to the charm of this movie which likely would be one of my favourite movies had I lived at this time. The acting or animal training of Lassie seem flawless, however I find the acting of most older movies poor by todays standards. The human acting seems staged to me and not very believable though there was some heart warming performances especially by the kids.
I found the plot, dialogue and music a bit to be desired though. The music and dialogue annoyed me in parts and distracted me from the emotion I felt and the heartwarming story. The story-line also is too simple, predicable and does not strike me as realistic matching human motives with human behaviour, so even though I shared a tear at this movie and was touched by scenes there was parts where I looked at the clock waiting for the movie to be over.
A great movie for its time, a wonderful movie for kids and any who care more about the message and heart of a movie than its quality, but by todays standards I do not think this was a great movie as the bar of movies has been raised causing it to lack in too many areas.
The fact it is in colour and has beautiful scenery also add to the charm of this movie which likely would be one of my favourite movies had I lived at this time. The acting or animal training of Lassie seem flawless, however I find the acting of most older movies poor by todays standards. The human acting seems staged to me and not very believable though there was some heart warming performances especially by the kids.
I found the plot, dialogue and music a bit to be desired though. The music and dialogue annoyed me in parts and distracted me from the emotion I felt and the heartwarming story. The story-line also is too simple, predicable and does not strike me as realistic matching human motives with human behaviour, so even though I shared a tear at this movie and was touched by scenes there was parts where I looked at the clock waiting for the movie to be over.
A great movie for its time, a wonderful movie for kids and any who care more about the message and heart of a movie than its quality, but by todays standards I do not think this was a great movie as the bar of movies has been raised causing it to lack in too many areas.