Buffalo Kids (Dubbed) (PG)
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Alisha Weir, Conor MacNeill, Stephen Graham, Sean BeanGenre: Western
Author(s): Javier Lopez Barreira, Jordi Gasull, Neil Landau, Hawa Macalou
Director: Pedro Solis Garcia, Juan Jesus Garcia Galocha
Release Date: 11/10/2024
Running Time: 82mins
Country: Sp
Year: 2024
Orphaned siblings Tom and Mary arrive in 1886 New York City from Ireland aboard the ocean liner Alexandra just as the Statue of Liberty is unveiled with a pyrotechnic-laden fanfare. The youngsters have come to America to live with their uncle Niall but their relative fails to materialise at the docks, leaving the tykes stranded with a stray dog which they christen Sparky. Unperturbed, the children plan to travel by train to Niall's home in Sacramento and they sneak aboard the Express Coast Railway.
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Buffalo Kids (PG) Film Review from LondonNet
Boundless optimism and naivete cocoon two stranded siblings from the harsh realities of 19th-century life in a Spanish computer-animated escapade co-directed by Juan Jesus Garcia Galocha and Pedro Solis Garcia, which has been cheerfully dubbed into English for family audiences. Expanded from the award-winning 2014 animated short Strings, which was inspired by the relationship between co-director Garcia’s daughter Alejandra and youngest son Nicolas, who had severe cerebral palsy, Buffalo Kids plucks heartstrings with the same eagerness as a banjo on the rootin’ tootin’ soundtrack composed by Fernando Velazquez. Touchingly, the film is dedicated to Nico’s memory…
Scriptwriters Jordi Gasull and Javier Lopez Barreira, working with English language script consultants Neil Landau and Hawa Macalou, canter roughshod over common sense and realism. Somehow, a wee scrap of a girl vertically lifts a boy in a wheelchair onto a raised platform without assistance, gun-toting bandits possess the engineering nous to construct a crank-driven 30-foot mountainside wall to conceal their covert mining operation, and three characters conveniently lodge in the same place at the same time to facilitate a dewy-eyed reunion. Such unremitting sweetness may cause dental cavities. The two directors apply a gentle touch to deeply personal material, while lightly addressing the reluctance of some parents to adopt a child with disabilities.
Orphaned siblings Tom (voiced by Conor MacNeill) and Mary (Alisha Weir) arrive in 1886 New York City from Ireland aboard the ocean liner Alexandra just as the Statue of Liberty is unveiled with a pyrotechnic-laden fanfare. The youngsters have come to America to live with their uncle Niall (Stephen Graham) but their relative fails to materialise at the docks, leaving the tykes stranded with a stray dog which they christen Sparky.
Unperturbed, the children plan to travel by train to Niall’s home in Sacramento and they sneak aboard the Express Coast Railway among a group of travelling orphans under the care of governess Eleanor (Gemma Arterton). As the train chugs towards a first stop in Omaha, Mary befriends a non-verbal boy in a wheelchair named Nick, who has cerebral palsy. Dastardly outlaw Wilson (Sean Bean) and his men hold up the train and Tom, Mary and Nick orchestrate a daring rescue plan with the help of Cheyenne tribal chief Yellow Wolf and his granddaughter Red Moon.
Buffalo Kids harnesses the luck of the Irish to slalom around plot holes and neatly extinguish tension between the United States Army and indigenous peoples without a single careless pull of a trigger. Scenes of mild peril shouldn’t disturb the young: one child limps after incurring an animal bite, another lingers briefly between life and death following a selfless act of heroism. Explosive flatulence ultimately saves the day and jeopardy is gone with the wind.
– Sarah Lee
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