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When young Vili starts shooting at birds, a fairy decides to teach him a lesson and turns him into a sparrow.When young Vili starts shooting at birds, a fairy decides to teach him a lesson and turns him into a sparrow.When young Vili starts shooting at birds, a fairy decides to teach him a lesson and turns him into a sparrow.
Levente Igaz
- Vili, a veréb
- (voice)
Cecília Esztergályos
- Cili
- (voice)
Ildikó Kilin
- Csiri, veréblány
- (voice)
Zoltán Bor
- Sunya, közveréb
- (voice)
Péter Tihanyi
- Guri, közveréb
- (voice)
Antal Farkas
- A kocsma csaposa
- (voice)
Aaron Bybee
- Willy
- (English version)
- (voice)
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My son was lent this in first grade. (We can buy it for $10.) There is a part where the older wiser sparrow goes to a bar and gets drunk on alcohol with two (normally drunk in credits) rats, thinking it's the elixir of knowledge. I was greatly surprised at this. But the spraying part is bad too, now that I think about it.
With 23 kids in his class at $10 each they spent $230 for this (not very good anyway) movie! And, used of for homework in place of regular homework! I just bought a wonderful geography book (Rand McNally beginners) for this grade (and older) for about $7 because I know they don't teach much at all in school! If they have money for this junk, why can't they spend it on education material!?
75 minutes felt a lot longer even to my son. It won't teach respect kindness or desire for knowledge if the person doesn't already have it. By the way; the older wiser characters talk way too fast. Joanne
With 23 kids in his class at $10 each they spent $230 for this (not very good anyway) movie! And, used of for homework in place of regular homework! I just bought a wonderful geography book (Rand McNally beginners) for this grade (and older) for about $7 because I know they don't teach much at all in school! If they have money for this junk, why can't they spend it on education material!?
75 minutes felt a lot longer even to my son. It won't teach respect kindness or desire for knowledge if the person doesn't already have it. By the way; the older wiser characters talk way too fast. Joanne
Love the movie. It was my son's favorite movie. He watched with his siblings. Sadly it was vhs and dvd only. I subscribed to a company that only sold movies that taught about morals. There was always a lesson to be learned. Today that is something that's lacking in today's society. My son watch many of these movies by Willy the sparrow was his favorite. He's 20 and he's house sitting right now and was wondering what could he do to pass the time. I said you could watch Willy the Sparrow. He said OMG mom I haven't seen that movie in years. That's a great idea. So years later it's still one of his favorite movies.
It was sometime ago back in the early to mid nineties, my Brother got a copy of it back when he passed the first grade, and I we still own the copy, and we always enjoyed it from time after time. The movie is filled with an equal portion of humor, action, courage, and of course a good influence for young ones of that age. The thing that I didn't know was, that the movie was originally made in Hungary back, in the late eighties. Well, like I say, we always enjoyed it, and so did all my brothers friends of who ever got a copy also, and of course will always be a masterpiece to all those out there, who's minds are just crying out for knowledge.
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Hungarian cartoonist are word famous, but the excellent Hungarian cartoons are unfortunately little known abroad. Whereas there are many good short and long cartoons (Gusztav, Mezga Geza, Dr. Bubo, Ludas Matyi, Hugo, the hyppo etc.)
Vili, a veréb (Will, the sparrow) is one of the best, if not the best, among these. Vili, a ten years old "bad" boy is shooting to sparrows with airgun. A good fairy penalize him by metamorphosing him to a sparrow. He have many funny adventures with sparrows (eg. to learn flying). By the end of film he will be a good, animal loving kid.
Vili, a veréb (Will, the sparrow) is one of the best, if not the best, among these. Vili, a ten years old "bad" boy is shooting to sparrows with airgun. A good fairy penalize him by metamorphosing him to a sparrow. He have many funny adventures with sparrows (eg. to learn flying). By the end of film he will be a good, animal loving kid.
This movie harms young boys by presenting the premise that it is okay for your ten year old girl to throw a cat in the dryer risking actual harm to the animal. However, the idea that an imaginative similarly aged boy who makes bang bang sounds at sparrows should be met with home invasion, high CFC spay, transfiguration, and the potential for extreme bodily harm is problematic.
I would also like to point out that this new character limit of six hundred characters per post is superfluous, supercilious, superfluent, and otherwise restrictive.
In the spirit of the above sentence here is the fourth longest word in the english language; Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
I would also like to point out that this new character limit of six hundred characters per post is superfluous, supercilious, superfluent, and otherwise restrictive.
In the spirit of the above sentence here is the fourth longest word in the english language; Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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- Alternate versionsThe U.S. version is shortened and re-edited to be even more suitable for children. U.S. version was produced by Feature Films for Families (FFFF) and directed by Scott Murphy. This version was also released in DVD in 2004.
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