SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

adrianswingler If the message could have been put more metaphorically, this might have worked. But doing it straight ahead in such a pedantic tone- whilst being just wrong- doesn't cut it. The fact is a gull couldn't do that; humans are one of the few species that could. Pedantic dressed up as cutesy. Lose!And as far as teaching goes, the main thing it has taught three generations is the grammatically incorrect "seagull". There's no such thing people. They're "gulls". Seagull. Right. As opposed to "landgull"?

Eve Louise I have never heard of the book nor this movie - until I was browsing in the local library and came across the DVD. Because of my devoted love and connection I have with Marine Life, The Sea and Animals in general, I thought that this was a 'feel good documentary' on seagulls.....HOW WRONG WAS I! Although this movie is metaphorically depicting 'human destructive and 'sheep-like nature' behavior, stepping outside oneself, becoming 'awakened within' becoming 'spiritually awakened' about 'the test and why we are here' to better ourselves and become at one with enlightenment; I felt nothing but heart-break. I cried and cried right throughout the whole movie. Not because 'I get it-the meaning of it' (I got it years ago) but because of the absolute disgusting deliberate animal cruelty right from the very beginning to the very end of the movie. HOW COULD SOMEONE DO SUCH A THING? IRONIC isn't it!!!! Reflective, the movie-makers of this film did exactly that! Just what humans should rise against...CRUELTY AND CONTROL! I hope I am incorrect. I hope someone out there can show me that 'every scene' in this movie where the seagulls shown were injured, dying, dead, frightened, confused, breathless, enduring unfamiliar terrain and weather extremities, battered and lifeless, and in dire straits of urgent veterinary medical attention was all fake!!! I will be contacting Ray Berwick and Gary Gero-Jim Callahan The Bird Trainers for the film AND Matthew Place The Bird Care Supervisor to see what results I get from them.The main Seagull Animal Cruelty Scenes I am concerned about are: 1) Opening scene: Fishing Trawler offloads fish-waste scrapes 'for the birds' enticing them to squabble and fight for the food. Look closely there are 2 different species of birds - 1 silvergull (seagull) and 1 brown bird with a hook eagle-like beak; and it was this bird that kept stabbing the defenceless silvergull in the head, with blood spurting out-very graphic indeed, and then proceeded to grab and shake the silvergulls beak, either breaking the silvergulls neck or shaking it to death...this is not natural behavior of these 2 species of birds together.2)Deliberately taking a silvergull out of its 'natural habitat' and forcing it to fly unnatural sky's: 3)The Dessert where HAWKS fly - The seagull was 'set upon and attacked' by a Hawk! 4)The Snow icy extremities - Showed shivering, alone, confused, lost and afraid! 5)Falling out of sky hitting the ocean knocking silvergull unconscious - showed the silvergull hitting the ocean so hard it split the silvergull's head including underwater scene where bird 'fought so hard' to bring itself back into consciousness but clearly under severe distress and injury. Filmmakers put drift crate (wood) to float past in order for the silvergull to 'with all its might-left resources' struggling to pull itself on top of crate, bleeding from head, feathers completely saturated and clearly battered and bruised; the silvergull's head was clearly uncoordinated wobbling from side to side, trying to keep it's head above the water from drowning. THE SILVERGULL WAS IN URGENT NEED OF VETERINARY ATTENTION.6)Rubbish Tip Scene - one seagull had an obvious injured leg and right wing...then suddenly on a different 'edit cut' did not and could walk and fly uninjured...7)Fletcher Colliding into the Cliff Face - I SCREAMED IN THIS SCENE...The filmmakers 'slowly filmed' the silvergulls' unintended death and smashing his head, wings and legs to death, tumbling down the cliff face...HOW COULD YOU????? If this scene is real the filmmakers involved should have been prosecuted and held accountable for every scene where 'all the seagulls' were injured, mistreated and killed by the highest legislation of Animal Cruelty.OTHER QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN UNANSWERED: 1) Why did 'Jonathan' Seagull suddenly disappear one third way through the film...suddenly 'Jonathan' (black and white silvergull)is replaced with a different seagull...white body and orange brown wings. The NEW Jonathan is DISTINCTIVELY DIFFERENT SILVERGULL. What happened to 'Jonathan'? 2) Why was Jonathan on his own MAJORITY of the time? The DESSERT SCENE was disturbing and very upsetting as the silvergull was LEFT just standing on its own in unfamiliar terrain, no water, no food and no shelter AND subjected as an easy target for predators:snakes, hawks, reptiles, spiders, etc...THIS IS ANIMAL ABUSE! The helicopter slowly moved away showing the silvergull ALONE AND AFRAID! IF ANYBODY CAN ANSWER MY QUESTIONS ACCORDINGLY I'D APPRECIATE IT. I AM HOWEVER AM CONTACTING THE BIRD TRAINERS OF THIS FILM TO FIND OUT THE ANSWERS TO WHICH MYSELF AND OTHER CONCERNED VIEWERS ARE DEMANDING ANSWERS FOR THE MAKING OF THIS PROVOKATIVE FILM.

crumpethead The first thing that struck me about this film is the extremely cruel way in which seagulls were treated in the making of this film. This film would never have been allowed to be made in the same way today. Many many scenes were probably "staged" at the expense of the life of a seagull or two. Birds with feathers saturated by seawater to the skin would find it difficult to recover. Similarly, how does the camera just happen to capture a fight scene between a seagull and a hawk without it being staged (eg seagull tethered so it can't escape etc). Seagulls released away from their natural habitat into a freezing, snow bound environment where they may not survive. Cruel beyond belief

SoylentGreenIsPeople91 This review is based on the first 45 minutes of the film - it is the only film I have ever walked out of. The single worst film I have ever seen. Pretentious drivel masquerading as some sort of art. Not even watchable in a "so bad its good" way. It is way, way below that standard. A seagull who wants to "fly" - not fly, "fly" (possibly with 2 y's). It is every bit as bad as the plot synopsis (and that is the entire plot) sounds. I thought that the book had had some interesting ideas, even if it was a bit on the twee side, but the film removed any vestige of charm from the book in favour of a literal interpretation of the book's message. All we have is a seagull who wants to "fly".(Please note that this review was not written by SoylentGreenIsPeople91, who has actually never seen this film)