The story of a little boy who raises an ugly black lamb rejected by its mother and brings it to a local fair where it wins a prize for being "special."
Eli
Rating: 5/10
Reaction: For this film, I must say, I did not care about any of the characters. Too much praising Jesus, too many ugly farm animals, too many annoying girls. (Okay - there was only one annoying girl, and only one ugly farm animal. But it felt like many...) This little boy gets a black lamb, and wants to make him a champion. Um. Okay. His granny is kinda awful. She's always like "believe in God, follow him, blah blah blah." Then there's a storm. And they go into a swamp for bee honey. Um. Okay. Then they want to go to the fair. A pretty typical "then this happened, then this, then this" story. The animated segments were pretty cute though. They had the lamb and owl going in and out of a pop-up book, and we got a history lesson. There was a song called "Stick-To-It-Ivity" which was pretty ridiculous and took us half the song to figure out what they were saying. Um. Okay. All in all, I probably wouldn't watch this again. I think we added it because it included live action and animation. I don't think it was ever in the theaters. Go figure.
Regan:
Rating: 6/10
Reaction: I'm definitely looking forward to starting on the more well-known Disney films. While this was a nice change of pace because it's a feature length film, it wasn't nearly as well done as all of the other books/movies in genres like this (Where the Red Fern Grows, Old Yeller, The Yearling, Babe, Anne of Green Gables...). I never cared about that black lamb (it was cute when it was born, then grew up and got ugly), and the two kids were really annoying. There were some cute songs. I really kept waiting for someone to die, partly because that always happens in other similar movies, and the fact that no one did definitely left me with a feeling of "who cares?" at the end. At the end of the year I doubt I'll remember much of anything about this movie, and that will be just fine. As a side note, this is the last of the Disney movies on our list with live action appearances from Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten, Disney's first contract actor children. Apparently Luana retired for ten years after this, while Bobby would eventually hit puberty, get horrible acne, and die at the age of 31 (though not before being the voice of Peter Pan).
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