[drjimmy]

I haven't seen it. But I didn't want to. I knew they would make the good guys bad and the bad guys good.
I have seen it, and you don't know what you think you know. There is certainly no "even handed" portrayal of Santa Anna, and if he did have any good points, they aren't shown in this movie. While not a great flick, it is a good one. There is no doubt from this movie that Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are heroes; they just aren't the kind you find in cartoons, but rather the kind you would probably find right now in places like Iraq.

[Trinity_Tx]

I have seen it, and you don't know what you think you know.
There is certainly no "even handed" portrayal of Santa Anna, and if he did have any good points, they aren't shown in this movie. While not a great flick, it is a good one. There is no doubt from this movie that Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are heroes; they just aren't the kind you find in cartoons, but rather the kind you would probably find right now in places like Iraq.

Exactly. You and I and the dozens of other freepers (except for one) who have actually seen the film have consistently agreed that the fears of a politically correct version were unfounded.

The Texas audience I was in (huge theater in a conservative Dallas suburb) applauded at the end. As so many freepers have described, it was indeed a patriotic film that gave out heroes their due and showed Santa Anna to be a weenie loser.

If it showed anything good about Santa Anna, I and a lot of others missed it, lol. The lack of "even handedness" is why the Mexican groups here are up in arms over it.

We conservatives need to try hard to avoid a knee-jerk victim mentality, or we'll wind up with the Cry Wolf syndrome too.

[abigail2]

I stand corrected. But usually I'm right. I will just have to see it. But because it's disney, I'll wait for DVD.