I love movies, I need to see a movie each day to can say that it worth's the awakening...
Of course I have my favourite kind of motion picture, of course this one wasn't one of those, but, in fact, I rarely find one that perfectly fits my preferences, so it wasn't only a surprise in that way, but it was a completely surprise at all.
I'd never seen a movie that compares to "Elephant Tales" and I suppose that I saw around 3.000, then I believe it creates a deferent style, a different genre, that in the next time will be improved and we can have a masterpiece soon.
Animal movies, there are thousands, but just a few are based in the animal point of view. If you want to see someone with this probably you need to watch an animated one, like "Bee Movie" or "Over the Edge".
Like I said, animal movies there are thousands, it's common to see them moving their mouth to speak or behave like natural actors, mostly of all thinking and acting as if they were humans... Forget it, there are no special effects in this one, if that's what you're searching for, then go and watch "Racing Stripes", "Stuart Little", "The Shaggy Dog" or the master "Babe".
In this movie animals were filmed naturally in their usual habitat, probably for hundred hours, and just for a few moments they were simply manipulated to do some uncomplicated movements, like a monkey opens a cage.
The purpose is to show to the world that our way of living is affecting theirs and the problems that the baby's find in their lives after losing his closest relatives.
I guess it's a movie for all family, but the kids under ten are the specific target. It was completely filmed live in South Africa, with Elephants, Lions, Cheetahs and Chimps, between many others. The animals just behave naturally and some voices show their way of thinking or communications.
To me, if I could, I prefer to watch it in the original language, but as it is a children's one, it's only available in the stores in Portuguese (as I'm a Portuguese guy), without subtitles. Probably, if seen with subtitles it was even better, in my point of view movies loses some quality when seen without the original voices and I'm grateful that in my country in rarely happens, even the animated movies.
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