The Magician's Elephant is a strange fairy tale that seems doomed to bore viewers, young and old, during the “serious” parts. At least the elephant looks good. TaraDBennett's review:
The wrong tonal choices can be a killer, especially when it comes to making an animated film tailored to kids. Netflix’s adaptation of author Kate DiCamillo’smakes some fatal tone mistakes in trying to smoosh together comedy, tragedy, childhood wonder and animal exploitation—which clash pretty hard. It’s almost like the studio knew this rather melancholy fairy tale about a town and its people suffering PTSD in the aftermath of a devastating war was kind of a downer.
Those sad moments essentially come back to Baltese being a bummer of a town to grow up in. A muted, postwar pastel wash blankets the melancholy town. Peterparanoid ex-soldier who wants the young boy to be ready for the next invasion, should it ever come. That means military drills and austerity for the kid, while the old kook watches feral cats “plot” in the alleyways.
Hynes relentlessly crosscut back to the more sorrowful elements ruins any momentum they achieve with the lighter half of the story.that comes off twee and heavy-handed, especially with Peter and his sister Adele. They are voiced in clipped British accents straight out ofscore by Mark Mothersbaugh works overtime to make the audience feel something—anything—that the story itself isn’t organically achieving.
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