Steve . . I was hoping you would say one good new twist about the 2018 Remake . At the movies end, the CGI Sandleford blends in to the real Sandleford. A young lad is running and carrying a little kit. When his mum shouts. "Richard Adams , what have you got there ? " . .

Christ, am I the only one that has never heard of this movie? Is that because I am in America? And if that is the reason.........WTF is wrong with you Brits showin' this kind of insanity to children?

Both reasons for needing the females are in the book, they primarily need them to dig the warren

watership down netflix was the best and I like the animated series then the old movie

Thank you for the review! I enjoyed it. Admittedly I haven't watched all of the remake because the pacing, music, animation, and muted contrast and other elements I wasn't too thrilled about. Also I agree about Hazel's relationship with Fiver was more important, especially since Fiver was doubted so much (like Cassandra in Greek mythology where the author took inspiration from) Also Bigwig was my favorite and he was so abrasive in the remake. I watched the original when I was really young and it gave me nightmares the first viewing, but I had to watch it again because it was an intense and emotional adventure and that really spoke to me. Also read the book, which for me was really immersive and offered a lot of insight into the story.

I think it was made to replace the trauma of the animated version which is still rated "g" in the uk.

I have never heard of this, but I like the look of it

Keeha's accent in the remake was the most disappointing.

So depressing when people who ever read the books "remake" it in their image......alienating all the people they should actually be pandering too. The fans!

Take a shot every time he says, *"BUT WAIT, IT'S NOT"*

Personal opinion: I actually like how it looks in the remake. It is cheap but in a good way. It looks like it was watercoloured a bit and I like things that way. It gives it more creativity which makes it more lively than the uncreative and cliche realistic style. I’m pretty sure bbc intended to make it look like that

They changed it just enough to pretend that female rabits are combarable to human girls lol. That's literally all. They weren't just for breeding, they had to be essential to the construction of the warren.

Broes before does

Remake looks more like an Animation Students work

As someone who has kept rabbits... bucks can definitely dig. But does dig waaaay more. A buck seems content just digging some simple stuff and then calling it good. Does will dig and dig and dig some more

A cesspool of childhood trauma.... Yes. That's EXACTLY why we love it.

AKA Killer Rabbits

*But wait it's not*

We had to read and study the book for English lesson but it wasn’t as disturbing as the movie as we later found out as we got a chance to watch it in class

The short version is they both suck in different ways and you really should just go read the book 😆 which puts both to shame

The words you're looking for are: This remake is shit like most remakes.

You should read the book, that way you can more effectively analyze the story, because right now you’re just comparing them to each other and not comparing them to the source material

I still think that the book was better

The best part of the 2018 one Was bluebell he was funny and cool But they got rid of pipkin and silver whom I really liked as side characters

Why the fuck isn’t bigwig on the cover of your dvd Outrage!!!!! Btw I fucking hate what they did to bigwig in 2018

Water ship down is on hbomax and Netflix both versions labeled pg

Watership Down will always have a special place in my heart. I saw the original on TV as an evening special broadcast. I was so moved I cried, my mom explained to me that there was a book, and we spent several weekends scouring used bookstores till we found a very nice used copy that I hold dear to this day. This seems to me to be one of those things that really didn't need a remake unless they were really going for broke to do a perfect book translation....

Remake seems closer to the book.

At least it's not animal farm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The book does actually mention needing does to dig, albeit at a different time, and for a slightly different reason.

One of my favorite things about the novel and '78 adaptation was the brotherly relationship, and the complete lack of romance, cause... ya know. They're pretty realistic Rabbits. They don't got time for dat.

Not many people may like the reboot, but at least it was less bloody and scary than the cartoon one. That scene where they show all those blue ghostly rabbits suffering in the ground always gave me the creeps and nightmares.

Honestly, the 'rabbits' in the remake looks more like hares.

as a nature nerd the most offensive things to me about the remake are how the rabbits move they look like weird hares instead of rabbits THEY HAVE PAW PADS and that fucking dog...

Watership down was a movie made for what it was back then. Back when we were not so offended by our own shadows. This film made in 1978 would not make it today from all these snowflakes who want to watch a movie but criticize it if it isn't like some pg-13 cartoon movie. I have seen it when it came on TV when I was young and had no problem with the movie but, today's people can't watch anything that shows any kind of death or action.

The idea that you need females for future generations contradicts the BBCs current gender ideology. So they have to dig.

Scared for life , thanks for that .

I'll tell you the reason. British SJWs and Feminazis

I've loved the book since 6th grade. I just watched the '78 flick--pretty good, for being so short. I haven't seen the series & don't want to. That's some robot uncanny valley shit, there. The '78 one has a better script because it sticks pretty closely to the text of the book, which is brilliant.

You should review Plague Dogs it's made by the same people of Watership Down

Watched the original way too early as it seems many people did. Scarred me but stayed with me forever. Finally, read the book and I wasn't disappointed. I get phases of wanting to watch it again and read the book. It has become a tradition of mine. Also didn't know of the remake but glad I skipped it. Just by this bit I am not impressed. But I enjoyed the analysis, thank you :)

It's very weird (and lazy?) to analyse and compare two adaptations of the same original work without actually referring to that work. Knowing the original explains many of the choices made in the adaptation processes.

rabbit: we need females to make more wabbits! BBC: are you sayin that women are only good for babies?!?!?! DATS SOOOO SEXIST!

the thing you missed is that the series is not a remake of the old movie. the movie is not "the original". they are both animations based on the same book - the book is the original. And it looks like you didn't read it because a big portion of the plot and character elements you didn't like are simply adapted from it. and it also feels like you are kinda nostalgia biased about those.

Damn the PC people dumb down everything. As obviously some bright spark was like but but they can’t look for females just to reproduce companionship love and all the other stuff good about having the opposite sex no they are like we need to make the females important in some way. Making Holly useless for the 1st half is a great idea as obviously you want someone in charge at the end who was useless for for half the movie. Hahaha damn stupid.

Original hands down and even more down because of the lost opportunities to properly expand on a great adaption to movie in the first example. No they ruined the aspect of brothers.... which was a large theme of the original story. Booo!!!!

why is nobody talking about the book?

I actually wanted a real review not a biased negative one. It’s alright I just disliked and unsubscribed 👍

i have returned from the future... i watch steve reviews on rainy nights with a bag of chips and a bottle of mountain dew.

1978 version.

watership down is not for kids right... but wait its PG.

Anyone have an unpopular opinion of preferring the remake? There seemed to be more diversity in rabbit colors making it easier to tell who's who, they could have done more with fivers vision I believe though

STEVE ITS A BOOK THE REMAKE FOLLOWED THE BOOK ALOT BETTER THAN THE “original”

Does anyone here know that it originated from an amazing book

I loved the remake.....i thought it was really good

I liked both versions for their own things. The latest is obviously more orientated to a younger public, less brutal. I saw the original movie when I was younger than 10 🤣 and altho I loved it, it was horrifying at same time. Both versions made me cry and that’s what the goal of both versions was, feel connected to the main characters.

this movie's not disturbing, just weird as shit

Christ that is some stiff animation

Bro. bro. You need to consider several key points that you completely neglected in your video. 1) Watership Down is a novel, and not just any novel, but required high school reading for easily 100 million Americans and Brits spanning decades of curriculum. Consider Tom Sawyer. 2) Besides the novel, for which there's naturally an audio book, there is also a BBC radio play. 3) And I'm guessing you missed the 3 season cartoon which ran from 1999 to 2002, adding an additional 15 hours of legend and lore? Oh yeah, and scads of "Tales Of" books that rounded off the collection. If you're going to do a comparison review, and go right into the lore, character development, and scene splitting... you're not going to impress me until you have fully absorbed all of the above. I am not impressed. You can't even carry a competent conversation about the subject that is Watership Down. (I mean yeah, sure, the remake arguably sucks.)

So did you just you know completely forget about how dandelion and sunflower fought each other because there was only one doe (strawberry) and that was definitely another reason they made pretty clear about getting doe’s. Not just for digging the warren.

I'm kindoff ashamed of myself because I actually cry when people criticize the original because I love it a bit too much 😅

I saw the first movie when I was really young & the part that disturbed me the most wasn’t the blood or fighting. It was the way Fiver saw things that weren’t there. He saw blood coming down the hill & Hazel couldn’t when they were right next to each other. What I learned: hallucinations are a thing & they are weird

well, in nature the females build the warren because there need room for their kids (Mentioned in the book!) and it was a problem in the book but they adapted and changed their ways to survive. But it comes across so dum in the remake!

More subs for this man please

I honestly don't understand what's with filmmakers and humanizing their villains, I don't want to feel bed for the bad guy. There's a reason people like Thanos and all of the original Disney villains and why they don't like the new maleficent.

the newest one has terrible cgi

Steve: *grew up on scary sh-t like this* Me and 68% of his subscribers: *grew up watching bambi*

"Why did BBC feel the need to tap on this excuse for needing females?" Because it's BBC.

I think the reason they said that bucks “can’t” dig is because in the original book, Bigwig (I think; it may have been one of the others) says that digging is “for does”. Then Adams side notes later that bucks only scrape when they need to, while does do a lot of the digging for their kits. So, they didn’t make it up, they just used it as an excuse so they didn’t have to mention “reproduction” in the movie. So, still a dumb reason 😂

Probably the only one who likes the remake *Sad harmonica noises*

BBC was trying to make it more PG because it's Channel is *PG*

*welcome to the animal movie for edgy kids!* *remade!*

Moral of the story: CG animation just can't compare to hand drawn.

I just finished reading the original book, and if you'd like a bit of context, the original movie follows the book more closely. The 2018 remake probably wanted to add more female characters to what is essentially a rabbit sausage fest. The book is entirely about the male rabbits' journey and struggles. Clover even mates with a rabbit that's NOT Hazel, even though Hazel broke her and others out of the hutch. The male rabbits dig their own warren, despite how unnatural it is for males because they don't know when they'll get females who are better at digging warrens. (This is just true to rabbit behavior, females have the instincts for protecting babies) Also they really did butcher Bigwig and Kehaar's characters, fuck them.

While I understand comparing that you are comparing the two versions on their own merits, I don't really get why you'd do all this speculation on why this or that would be included without reading the book or at least a summary of it.

Are they hares or rabbits? They look more like hares.

I watched this movie as a hecking 11 year old, thinking: "oh cool, and adventure story about rabbits" and watched it, despite my parents warnings. th- that shit SCARRED me dawg

efrafa in the original represented the soviet union

Since its now on Netflix as a ,,Orignal" now i can easily say: Manga: the Book Anime: the animated Film Netflix adaptation: the 2018 miniseries

Fun fact: If you haven’t read the book, in it Hazanthlay is Hazel’s mate and Clover is Holly’s.

The remake wasn’t that bad tbh

I'm now 13 and I first watched this movie when I was 7 or 8 and I loved this movie and I'm still scared of some of the scene this movie is really good for it's era

The 2018 Watership Down remake is better than the original But wait It’s not

Does anyone remember the 1999 tv series? It was amazing and is the only good kid friendly version, check it out if you havent seen it.

But this one is not creepy it’s bareable new and awsooommmmeee

So you just said there should be extra characters but don’t care about them cause then your wrong

I love the remake and want more

BBC has been known for having a feminist agenda,that’s why they changed the reason the rabbits needed females which is bullshit

This video seriously feels like someone making fun of an new movie just bc it's new and the only good points made were about big wig and the bird but that's it. This video is genuinely annoying at how much he reached for points and how pretentious he sounded acting like what he was saying was true and theres no fighting it.

I don't even know what watership down is, I just saw it in a video, and I saw some video clips of watership down also in that video. And I'm traumatized please help me

Can you review seasons 1 2 and 3 in the Watership Down cartoon the cartoon should still be on IRmys

Do you think BBC would want to add blood, guts and blood curdling screams in the 2018 episodes? NO, IT'S A KIDS MOVIE- there is something wrong with this dude...

Should review A Serbian Film. It's very graphic and hands down the most traumatic film I've ever seen. It even tops I Spit On Your Grave

Idk why but the zoom on the rabbit saying that the need females to dig made me laugh really hard.

I actually really liked the remake , even if it steps down from the original and does some things differently , it stills keeps the same qualities and actually made me care more about the story and haracters than the original .

i remember 12 year old me watching watership down, practically dying from laughter after that seagull said "piss off" (and yes i watched the old one and im surprised i wasnt disturbed af)

Ah yes, dont give hazel the respect he deserves. They are rabbits thats it, they dont build character like humans. Also trying to hide the reason why they need does is just sad. Just say they need babies of course the bbc wouldnt wanna say something like that. They messed with all the rabbits that dont even connect with the book which i just so happen to be reading right now.

Nice comparison. Haven't never seen either version, I watched the original recently. It was so refreshing to watch something that didn't follow a generic story line, and the imagery was so captivating. After watching your review of the remake, I would have no interest in watching it. It's sad that they try to fit everything into the same cookie cutter mold.

The original movie is not the original story. PLEASE read the book before complaining how the remake changed from the original. I think you'll find that many changes were made to increase accuracy to the ORIGINAL BOOK SOURCE. It is a GREAT read, you won't be disappointed.

So.... The original movie took the time Hazel was shot out of sequence and so of course Fiver was the only one who could have found him because they didn't have the does by that time in the original film. They used the scene as a way to show how the brothers had a special connection. So of course you'd complain when it changes from original movie to the remake, but in essence it is not accurate to the book anyways.