Customer Reviews

Whispers - An Elephant's Tale [VHS]

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

This movie was great fun! The realistic cinematography of all the animals in the wild was very educational and beautiful! Whispers is adorable and all the other elephants are fun to watch. The music was fantastic and the story is heart warming! A great movie for kids and adults alike, especially animal and nature lovers!

We recently enjoyed watching the elephants walk around and talk to each other. After the feature film, we started watching one of the bonus cartoons that came with the DVD. This cartoon short was called "Clown of the Jungle".

The cartoon starts with a bird smoking a big stogie. After enjoying his cigar, he decides that life is too much to handle and attempts to kill himself.

Twice during the cartoon the character is seen holding a gun to his head.
Twice during the cartoon the character is seen with a noose around his neck.
Finally, since he didn't manage to kill himself using those methods, he decided that drinking poison was the only way to go.

My 2 & 4 year old girls really enjoyed this, next weekend they want to watch Faces of Death or maybe HBO's Autopsy.

On a more serious note, when I was growing up, we would see this all the time, but I think things have changed a bit since then. Of the millions of cartoon clips, I'm a little shocked to see one of this nature on a G Rated Disney DVD.

Enjoy.

My son loves this movie - he wanted to rent it everytime we went to Blockbuster, so I just went ahead and bought it. It is a cute story. The only rough part is hunters shooting off their guns, but it doesn't show any gore, and is pretty short. It is a cute family story with great live footage.

Set in the wilderness of Africa and featuring real animals who express themselves with human voices, Whispers follows the misadventures of an elephant calf named Whispers (Debi Derryberry) who gets separated from his mother (voiced by Anne Archer). In his desperate search to find her, he hooks up with a pessimistic pachyderm with some junk in the trunk. Her name is Groove (Angela Bassett), and in spite of her loner mindset she decides to help the little one in his plight.

I saw this movie when it aired on TV, and I found it pretty boring. However, I think kids will enjoy the story and the locations are quite beautiful. There aren't many extras on the DVD, but it's worth a look if you think you'll enjoy the scenery.

This is one of the most awesome and heartwarming movies I've seen, with a great moral to the story. I loved everything about this movie. It is educational, funny, touching, and the music is really cool. This movie is recommended for every boy and girl and also the adults who still "have a heart" and are touched by warm, good stories with a happy ending. We would "cough up water" for this movie. Watch it, better yet - buy a copy, you won't regret it and your children surely won't.

As old as this movie is, I've only ran across it last year while watching t.v. and found it playing. As a lover of both animals and Africa, I truly loved this movie. This is not a cartoon. It is a real movie with real animals filmed in Beautiful Africa! It's a heartwarming tale of a baby elephant named Whispers who becomes seperated from his mother. He desperately tries to find her and runs upon another female adult elephant named Groove. Groove is alone too, for she is an outcast from her herd but she never wanted to have a "baby". They end up teaming up together... for she can not resist loveable Whispers.... in order to find Whisper's mother. Along the way, they run into many surprises. All the animals in this movie express themselves with real human voices. The voice of Whispers is just adorable. A great Walt Disney movie for the whole family. You experience not only a touching story but also the beauty of Africa itself. I found this movie so good, that I bought it. Very much worth the money. Great movie!

OK, my three year old really likes this movie. There is lots of action and lots of animals, which makes a good show as far as he is concerned. However, I *really* hate the dialog--especially the way the baby elephant interacts with the other elephants. I suppose the scriptwriters wanted to make it hip or something, but it just comes off as obnoxious and smart-assy (pardon my french). I would not allow my child to speak in such a manner to *anyone*, so I don't like him being exposed to such behavior.

The fact that the story includes death doesn't bother me as much as the dialog. There is no gratuitous gore, and hunting--both by humans and other predators--is what life is like for animals in Africa.

There are so many better animal movies out there--The Adventures of Milo and Otis, for example--that don't try to be tragically hip. I'll be glad when my son stops asking for this tape and I never have to see it again!

I read other reviews that said this was a great family movie. I bought the movie for my two year old who loves elephants more than anything in the world. I thought that I had finally found a movie with actual elephants (not animation) that had a good wholesome plot, I was sorely mistaken. Five minutes into the movie there are poachers who start shooting and killing Whisper's mother and other elephants within the herd. I thought my wife was going to shoot me when we were all watching this in the family room! It may be a good movie but it was made for an older audience.

Very cute movie and my Grandchildren will love it as much as I do. If you like elephants and animals that talk you will love this movie.

Normally I dislike animal movies with "people" voices, but this one was a delight to watch and is really an all family movie. The filming of the elephants is excellent. Besides being a love story among the elephants, showing their great caring for one another, it graphically depicts the hideous poaching and slaughter of Africa's elephants. I wish they would promote this movie in China. That's where all the ivory is being sent.