Two Brothers

Reviewed by:
Paul Ulane

Usually, when a movie opens with two tigers humping, we settle in and prepare for a good time. Too bad the rest of Two Brothers is the biggest downer of the summer. After two cubs (the products of said humping) are torn from their family and their Southeast Asian jungle home by Guy Pearce and a band of money-hungry locals, the rest of the flick trots through their struggles to survive among villainous, profit-seeking humans. Not only is one treated inhumanely by circus handlers and the other trapped by royalty for their private big game hunts, but every feline father figure they encounter along the way gets sniped. We don't know what kind of audience the filmmakers are going after, but it's far too traumatic for kids, and the fragmented story and poorly dubbed non-English-speaking roles won't satisfy adult needs of cogence, plot development, or non-animal nudity. All of the critter killing just hammers home the point that humans are a terrible species—but we already got that message from Soul Plane, and at least that was under two hours.

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