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Bookmark this pageThe Wind in the Willows (1996)
Director: Terry Jones
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Terry Jones' version of Kenneth Grahame's classic echoes Alan Bennett's successful stage play, but on the whole it's a dire miscalculation. Things start unpromisingly when Mole (Coogan, serviceably velveteen) quits his burrow, not to avoid spring cleaning, but to get away from the developer's bulldozer. Apart from turning up the impact on Toad's multiple car crashes and adding a big explosive ending, Jones introduces a nightmarish Dog Food Factory which, with its cogs and sprockets and steel-edged mincers, drags the gentle animals into its maw. It's showtime too, with a parade of stars bunged in to do tiny turns. The suitably threatening weasel dance in the woods is one of the film's few inventive moments.Author: BC
Cast & crew
Director: Terry Jones
Producer: John Goldstone, Jake Eberts
Cast: Terry Jones, Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Antony Sher, Nicol Williamson, John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Bernard Hill, Michael Palin, Nigel Planer, Julia Sawalha, Victoria Wood full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 87 mins
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