source: The Silver Brumby

I have watched this movie several times, it has been one of my favorite horse movies. I usually try to watch every horse movie I find and this is one of the great ones. I love how they have the mom telling the story as it is happening. There is even a baby kangaroo that they take care of. One thing that bothers me, that always bothers me, is the way the men 'break'(I hate that word)the horses. It is always very disturbing. The story is good, how the life of a horse in the outback, I am always looking for movies that are 'believable'. I highly recommend it. I am going to buy it for my children one of these days. It is a great movie for children, all children should know the love of horses.

That's ninety-three minutes of my life I'll never get back. It was a terrific ad for wild horses and the Australian outback, but the writing was atrocious, and the movie moved at the pace of a glacier. My nine year old daughter. who LOVES horses, couldn't wait for it to end. I'm guessing that Russell Crowe would love to get his hands on every copy of this movie and destroy it for the single line "I'll get you silver horse!" At the risk of offending every member of the Russell Crowe fan club, my wife, and twelve year old son also thought this movie was dull, and predictable. If you like cliché'd fables, this movie will be right up your alley!

Well being a horse addict, i have always enjoyed movies about them. Being an Australian horse addict i have always known about the Silver Brumby. So i have always looked out for movies about them. I was introduced to the Silver Brumby via The Animated series of it, witch was okay when i was 6, but a bit young for me now, so i found the movie. I bought the movie for the horses, not for the perving on Russel Crowe. If you ask me i found the ending a bit rushed, with the horse chase, then Thowra jumping into the ravine, then the narrator saying whether or not he actually lived. But that is just my opinion. My favorite horse from the movie was undoubtedly Thowra, with his (or really her) beautiful palomino coat. Palomino is my favorite horse colour. I thought the soundtrack and scenery were beautiful, and i actually got to visit it the Victoria Alps earlier this year. But all in all this is a great movie for horse lovers all over the world, not just for the ones here.

Unlike the other reviewers (it appears), I came to this movie after a long love affair with the original story*. I borrowed 'The Silver Brumby' off of a friends mother as a child, and read it six times through before handing it back. It is one of those stories that just captures the heart and the imagination, and is truly an Australian classic. I was 12yo when the movie was released. Now, 11 years and many viewings later, I feel a little melancholy that while they did a wonderful job, they may have just missed the mark in some aspects. The subplot of Elyne Mitchell and her daughter Indi was never in the book, and I do feel it was ultimately unnecessary and more often than not disrupted the movies flow. The 'Man' was portrayed as to hard, almost possessed. True he was fairly obsessed by Thowra, but he also greatly respected him, and the bush in general. I also missed Storm, Thowra's bay half brother, who was such a large part in the story and a personal favourite of mine. It was bordering on being a bit sugary at times as well. On the other hand some scenes were just about perfect, like the pages of the book come to life before my eyes, and for that I'm very thankful. The soundtrack also is beautiful, and particularly haunting during the final chase. There are other small changes that seem unnecessary to me, such as the blending of Golden's owner and 'the man on the black horse' into one person when in the book they were separate people, but I suppose they thought that children would get confused (a common, and often wrong, assumption from my experience) so they strove to simplify it as much as possible. Ultimately I feel that the story was simplified too much, therefore losing some of the depth and power of the original. Over all the visuals were about perfect, the story surprisingly close to the original for a lot of it (unlike many other book to movie adaptations), the sense of magic and mystery quite well portrayed. You could really feel that the bush was almost a character in it's own right. After 11 years I still thoroughly enjoy watching it (unlike the total travesty of the cartoon series released in the late 90's which was mildly horrendous even by young children's cartoon standards). As a book to movie adaptation I give it 5 out of 10. As a movie in it's own right, 7 1/2 out of 10. *I'd urge any child, or adult who still loves a tales full of wonder, joy and excitement, to seek out the source material. There are 6 books in the original series, written from 1958 to 1973. 1. 'The Silver Brumby', 2. 'Silver Brumby's Daughter', 3. 'Silver Brumbies of the South', 4. 'Silver Brumby Kingdom', 5. 'Silver Brumby Whirlwind' and 6. 'Son of the Whirlwind'. There is also 'Moon Filly' which was written between numbers 4 & 5 and ties into the later books. From 1993 onwards she added more to the saga; 'Silver Brumby, Silver Dingo', 'Dancing Brumby', 'Brumbies of the Night', 'Dancing Brumby's Rainbow' and 'The Thousandth Brumby'. I don't think these later books quite match up to the earlier ones, but they are still most enjoyable and it is lovely to read about the later generations. Elyne Mitchell is also the author of many other books for both adults and children. I could not recommend her highly enough.

i devoured these books when i was young, and formed wonderful fantasies and images of the horses. imagine my surprise when i watched the movie. not silver, palamino. not brumby, thoroughbred (made up to look arabian). not stallion, mare. not watchable, embarrassing. a missed opportunity to present an ethereal, gritty, accurate adaptation of an iconic series of books which entranced many readers. there is a place for pretty horses in great condition in the movies, but not as representations of wild brumbies; where were the rough, rawboned, wary horses with tangled manes and untrimmed feet? and i'm sure there is no longer need for maniacal, reverberating laughter outside of a pirates of the c. franchise. there is still sense to be made of dialogue, given an adequate script. there is suspension of disbelief, and then there is accidentally inspired lol moments of prolonged painfullness. no-one over the age of 10 should watch this movie. unless you want to hate yourself.

I absolutely loved the movie. It was a very enjoyable and moving film to watch after the hectic pace of Christmas . The idea and the entire story was quite captivating to me, I didn't even want to stop to get a glass of water. Excellent job on all fronts. Way to go folks. The scenery and the sound track was wonderful , very believable for sure. Watched this movie with a friend and she too was very taken with the whole story line. Really makes a person want to believe in humanity and the better treatment of all of God's creatures. I also thought the voice used in the telling of the story of this movie made it very endearing and drew you into the story very much so. This film will definitely be recommended to all of my friends as a good family movie.

I truly wish that this movie would have been shown in theatres in the US instead of going directly to video. The visuals were absolutely stunning, especially the scenes of the brumbies galloping freely. The basic premise of the story about the Man's obsession for the Silver Brumby was excellent. The medium of the mother relating the story to her daughter was also handled well, but some of the other scenes with the mother and daughter distracted from the flow of the film. Especially the scenes with the kangaroo. To me they seemed disjointed as if they were just thrown in hodgepodge. Overall I loved the movie and will watch it again for the Australian scenery and horse scenes.

The name, "The Silver Brumby" a movie about a palomino, which is a yellow horse. It should've been, "The Golden Brumby". The horse's "girlfriend" was the same color and her name was "Golden". Dumb. Russell Crowe's laugh when the mare came back to him was over the top. Then the ending... Nothing brave or romantic about driving a horse off a cliff. Boo...

Beautifully done movie. The landscape scenes are breathtaking. The horses are all gorgeous (esp. Thowra) and the music is haunting. The scenes with the mother and daughter sometimes interrupt the flow, but it's mostly horse footage. And yes Russell Crowe is a hunk as always.