tdwhitney
I have a three and a five year old. They both love this movie. I think adults that try to rate kids' movies need to take into account that they are not the intended audience. Kids don't care if the plot and theme have been overdone. They don't care if the voices and the animal movement done sync up perfectly, although I actually think they did a pretty good job with this movie. I am actually always impressed when anyone can pull off a movie like this with wild animals. In fact, although I've seen lots of movies with cats, dogs, cows, etc. I haven't seen many with what are essentially wild animals, even if they'r from a zoo. I don't know where or how they filmed this, but I thought they did a great job, and again, my kids love this movie. It's definitely oriented toward kids, it's not too scary and it's got just enough action in it. I totally disagree with the harsh reviews above, and I'm not an easy sell. It's perfect for young ones.
guraqt41
Hi There, I am the Grandmother of eleven beautiful Grandchildren. On Saturday, May 14th, 2005, My Grandchildren, their Mother's, and Myself sat down to watch "Whisper-An Elephants tale." This film is rated "G."We are all wondering if there might be some mistake in the rating of this movie. The children, their Mothers and Myself were very disturbed by the graphic detail of the human and animal behavior in this film. We were under the impression, according to the brief description of the movie on the back of the box, that we were going to watch something similar to Homeward bound. It even stated that. This movie was Not even close in comparison. Of course the many animals were wild instead of dogs and a cat. That would have been understandable, But Please this was a child's movie rated "G." There wasn't a warning of any kind of it's graphic nature. Anyway, a few minutes into this movie and you can see why we are concerned. A half hour further and it rose to disgust. We turned off the movie due to the terribly upset children. Their mother's and myself were in shock and did a double check on the back of the DVD box for the rating once again. My Daughter had the stronger stomach and watched a bit more to see just how bad it got. She was even disgusted at the graphic detail in the animal attacks. Just so you would know this, in case you didn't, we thought we would write to you and request that the rating be changed to "PG" so that other parents and children will be warned before hand and won't be left with those images in their heads like we have. We're not sure if this is the proper channel to follow to make this request or not, but if it isn't would you be so kind as to forward this to the one who can handle it for us. Thank You, so much, for your understanding.
sunking
I love Disney movies I love ElephantsThat's what this movie is all about. Unfortunately I felt the movie was just way to negative, and put me in a sad mood. The movie just kept pounding the message on how badly Elephants in the wild got it. Sure Elephants are hunted, and that is just wrong. But most elephants just don't have it that bad. To the movie makers, please lighten up. My vote 2 out of 10
dwpollar
1st watched 12/14/2001 - 4 out of 10 (Dir-Dereck Joubert): So so tale of an elephant from birth to young adulthood and all his wonderful adventures.(aka. Losing his mother, losing his best friend, getting attacked by lions, getting attacked by the takers[human hunters] etc.) There is so many rough times for this elephant named Whispers that when you're done watching you're glad you're not an elephant. But seriously, this movie uses the same basic storyline of many better kids movies(Aka. Land Before Time, Homeward Bound etc.), a quest for a better place which for this elephant would be with his mom whom he lost early in the movie. No matter where they go they are stalked by lions and humans so I'm not sure there is any safe haven which is the point of the movie(family is the answer no matter where you are) but despite the attempt to have a genuine positive ending the movie still leaves you depressed, but not ready to stop elephant killers(which I think was the 2nd reason for making the movie). The bottom line is that this movie is ok, but I don't even think it's done well enough for even kids to get through even though the movie is only 72 minutes long.
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