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The Magician's Elephant

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6.9/10 • 202

2023-03-101h 39m

AnimationAdventureFamilyFantasyComedy

Dare to believe

Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His only question is: is his sister still alive? The answer, that he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it, sets Peter off on a journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town forever.

Directors
Wendy Rogers
Editors
Robert Fisher Jr.

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  1. Noah Jupe

    Noah Jupe

    Peter (voice)

  2. Mandy Patinkin

    Mandy Patinkin

    Vilna Lutz (voice)

  3. Brian Tyree Henry

    Brian Tyree Henry

    Leo Matienne (voice)

  4. Natasia Demetriou

    Natasia Demetriou

    Narrator / Fortune Teller (voice)

  5. Sian Clifford

    Sian Clifford

    Gloria Matienne (voice)

  6. Benedict Wong

    Benedict Wong

    Magician (voice)

  7. Miranda Richardson

    Miranda Richardson

    Madam LaVaughn (voice)

  8. Kirby Howell-Baptiste

    Kirby Howell-Baptiste

    The Countess (voice)

  9. Aasif Mandvi

    Aasif Mandvi

    The King (voice)

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CinemaSerf

Mar 25, 2023

6/10

A young orphan "Peter" has been brought up by a disciplinarian former-soldier, but longs to find his long-lost sister from whom he was parted at the height of war. Out for the daily shopping (stale bread and fish), he espies a tent in which a fortune teller offers to tell his future. It seems that he might be reconciled with his sibling - but for that he has to follow the elephant, and there hasn't been one in his town for an age. Meantime, a rather hapless magician is trying to entertain the great and the good in the town's theatre when - low and behold - he conjures up... The king arrives in the town to inspect this magically contrived and noisy pachyderm and decrees that if "Peter" can carry out three impossible tasks, he can keep it! The three impossible tasks are quite entertaining, as is the whole film. The story is all a little predictable and it does stray into sentimentality just a bit too often, but it's an engaging family drama with some fun characters and colourful scenarios. Maybe a bit too wordy and probably fifteen minutes too long - it takes an age to get going - it is still a gently entertaining watch that imbues the lead character with some imagination and legerdemain and one that I quite enjoyed on a big screen.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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