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Simplified black and white morality makes for do-gooder main characters that are dull and unsympathetic in their quest to build a sanctuary for migrating geese at any cost (they literally lose their house over it, a decision the <PERSON> matriarch is not involved in). Once again, Disney's attitude to animal rights is ambivalent - or, less generously, hypocritical - and more a mask for the deeper fault line between old fashioned, small town rural life (which is exalted) and city people (who evilly encroach on the former): <PERSON> and his father kill animals to sell their fur which is good, while out of town businessmen hunting geese for sport is wrong... 295