The Mighty Celt
by Pearse Elliott
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Actor: Gillian Anderson, Robert CarlyleDirector: Pearse Elliott
Brand: CINEQUEST INC.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Cinequest Films
DVD Reviews of The Mighty Celt
DVD Review: gillian the great!
Summary: 5 Stars
scully was wonderful in her performance in another life. It's good to she anderson playing a low status character compared to her upper status character in the x-files. When I seen her character smoking I said no don't do it scully It's bad for your health. she played splendid talking with that irish accent I loved it and her. I recommend it for anderson fans.DVD Review: An All Around Good Film
Summary: 4 Stars
A film that shows the best and worst of the human animal. Gillian Anderson and her co stars all show excellent performances. This film is very creative and should be enjoyable to audiences of any age. DVD Review: Excellent Movie, but with Parental Guidance Needed
Summary: 4 Stars
Don't expect a Disney style cute story in this movie. I'd say that it depicts life in Donal's part of Ireland so realistically that one could think they were watching filmed every-day life there. By this, I mean that there are very few typical film tricks to evoke emotion or to carry the story. The only one I noticed was at the end when the animal control people were confiscating the dogs from the evil trainer. There are actually two stories here; one is Donal's relationship with the dog trainer, and the other is with the man who comes into his life, one who carries a long-held secret. Both stories are interwoven seamlessly into a very satisfying whole.
I do have a couple of caveats, however. The first is that young Donal, about 13 or 14 years old, is shown smoking over and over again. Even when the stranger says it is bad for him, Donal defends it. I don't recall any bad language, once again proving that evil people and 'low class' people can be shown realistically in movies without constant swearing. The second warning to families with young children is that some dogs are being shown (apparently) drowned in a quarry, and the dog trainer slashes the throat of Donal's assigned dog, one that he trained for racing.
Both my wife and I found this movie to be very realistic and it certainly did not lag in any way. I would give it five stars if it weren't for the smoking by a young teen boy. Also, it is graded down a bit because there is not closed captioning, and we simply could not figure out what some (especially the dog trainer) were saying because it the strong Irish dialect of English. All in all, it is an excellent movie about a boy, a dog, and of both betrayal and creating new family ties.
DVD Review: Likable.
Summary: 3 Stars
The Mighty Celt (Pearse Elliott, 2005)
Not a bad little film, this. When I read the description, I figured I was in for a Disney-esque light-hearted family tale about a dog winning against all odds, but that's certainly not what I got. It also listed the top stars as Tyrone McKenna and Ken Stott, so I was quite surprised when Gillian Anderson and Robert Carlyle popped up, as well. Surprises in casting are usually a good thing.
Yes, there's a dog, and there's racing, and all that sort of thing, but a lighthearted family tale this is not. Good Joe (Stott, who's been making a name for himself recently as the title character in Rebus) runs a kennel for racing greyhounds. The tone of the movie is set in the opening scene, when we see him at a quarry tossing in a vaguely bloody and dog-shaped burlap sack. This is not a Disney film, by any means. Donal (McKenna, in his first screen role) is Joe's helper around the stables, and he gets attached to one of the dogs, whom he names The Mighty Celt. The dog trains well in the mornings, but in his first race, he finishes dead last. Donal saves the dog from disaster by making a deal with Joe: he'll train the dog and run him in his (Donal's) own name, and after three races, if the dog's become a winner, Joe will let Donal keep the dog. Cue miracle. Of course, that's not all; it seems any movie made in Ireland in the past thirty years must have a subplot regarding the Troubles (as any movie in America since 25th Hour must say something about 9/11), and that comes with the friction between Good Joe and Donal's uncle O (Carlyle, in a rare impressive performance), the latter of whom is tentatively romancing his ex-girlfriend and brother's widow, Kate (Anderson, in a not-at-all-rare impressive performance).
It's not a great film, by any means-- the IRA plot sort of wanders off into the distance, never to be seen again, for one thing-- but it's emotionally honest, which is one thing that vast numbers of American movies involving children and their attachments to animals are not. That alone makes it worthy viewing for an American audience that's been weaned on such pap as The Incredible Journey and My Friend Flicka. McKenna does a creditable enough job with the role, and the actors around him are quite good; the script's few problems are jarring, but not a deal-killer. ***
Description of The Mighty Celt
Starring Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The King of Scotland) and Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty), The Mighty Celt uplifts and charms. Young Donal, growing up alone with his mother, Kate, works after school for Good Joe, a local greyhound trainer. As Donal s talent with dogs becomes apparent he strikes a deal with Good Joe to own a promising greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if he can train it to win three successive races. Meanwhile, each of their lives is profoundly affected by the reappearance of O, an enigmatic figure from the past. Good Joe clearly dislikes O, hating all that he represents, and resents the growing closeness of Donal and O a friendship that Kate is also very wary of. When Good Joe reacts to the growing relationship between O and Donal by reneging on his deal, Donal is forced to learn some harsh lessons about life.Ireland DVDs
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