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CGI cartoons are becoming more and more popular and less and less good. "Valiant" is considered a minor cartoon even in this genre that doesn`t produce too many great works. Yet to my eye it didn`t appear to be that bad at all. Animation isn`t breathtaking, of course, and the plot is predictable as that of a soap opera. Valiant is a young pigeon who wants to be a homing pigeon in WW2. Since the homing pigeon force of UK doesn`t have enough decent pigeons Valiant and a group of 4 other misfits get a chance to fulfil a dangerous and extremely important mission under the command of an older and wiser pigeon. But it proves that even such silly creatures can outmaster the falcons of Hitler. The main reason why I liked this one was probably the voices behind those pigeons. Most important of those were Ewan McGreggor as Valiant and John Cleese as Mercury (a pigeon held hostage by the falcons). Oh, John Cleese, you get a big chance to blabber useless nonsense - that`s the right thing for you! Your voice may seem a little old for a pigeon but who cares! McGreggor`s voice doesn`t come perfectly for Valiant - after all Ewan is a fully grown man and not a teenage pigeon but man do I love those British folk! Were this thing done by Americans (as "Madagascar" was) I doubt I`d like it but so, despite all the minor flaws, it was quite a good cartoon.