This movie has a beautiful Outpost Trading mercantile establishment where a well stocked blanket and pots and pans section seems to be the gathering place for this great story. A cast of 3 or maybe 4 men and a woman or maybe two and a little boy take turns emoting with their sometimes unconscious faces as they fight for more stuff.
The boy does do some wonderful but apparently dangerous scenes riding on an elephant's trunk. Really. Then an elephant saves a woman from some other elephants. The white gorilla with the black zipper meets a bigger gorilla. And there's a monkey and some tigers and a few lions. The hippo scene works better than most hippo scenes.
The plot is based I think on Titanic, but instead of the ship sinking after it hits an iceberg, this movie starts to go under after it bumps up against the opening credits. A hole is ripped in the plot and there are not enough lifeboats to get the cast back to Central Casting.
The good news is Ben Affleck will not be doing a remake. He wants to, of course. He pitched it to Spielberg but Steve said he would not be able to budget something this big.
Three guys have nice mustaches and there's an old Victrola.
I liked it and recommend it for Bad Movie Night.
Tom Willett
The boy does do some wonderful but apparently dangerous scenes riding on an elephant's trunk. Really. Then an elephant saves a woman from some other elephants. The white gorilla with the black zipper meets a bigger gorilla. And there's a monkey and some tigers and a few lions. The hippo scene works better than most hippo scenes.
The plot is based I think on Titanic, but instead of the ship sinking after it hits an iceberg, this movie starts to go under after it bumps up against the opening credits. A hole is ripped in the plot and there are not enough lifeboats to get the cast back to Central Casting.
The good news is Ben Affleck will not be doing a remake. He wants to, of course. He pitched it to Spielberg but Steve said he would not be able to budget something this big.
Three guys have nice mustaches and there's an old Victrola.
I liked it and recommend it for Bad Movie Night.
Tom Willett