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Dir: Christopher Nielsen. Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kyle MacLachlan, Jim Broadbent, Simon Pegg, Phil Daniels, Samantha Morton, Emilia Fox

 

Description: Computer-animated adventure from Norway revolving around a heroin addicted elephant called Jimmy, who is the star attraction at a circus owned by villainous Russian ringmaster Stromowski. Animal activists led by Marius intend to set Jimmy free, so the pachyderm no longer has to suffer the humiliation of performing. Unbeknownst to Marius and his radicals, the elephant is carrying a large shipment of drugs, concealed beneath its hide, and both the Lapp Mafia and American opportunist Roy Arnie plan to kill Jimmy to get their greedy mitts on the illegal wares.

Country: NOR/UK. 2006. 85mins
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By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  16.10.08
 
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This peculiar animated Norwegian-British co-production has a heroin-addicted circus elephant on the run from a gang of druggie crooks who know there’s a stash of smack sewn under his hide.

A moose and a group of animal rights loonies are on the elephant’s side. This, you may gather, is a satire. There’s a sex scene early on (not involving the elephant) and lots of bloody deaths.

Writer-director Christopher Neilsen is aided by Simon Pegg — who translated his script into English and voices one of the druggies — and by Phil Daniels, Woody Harrelson and Jim Broadbent. But the characters don’t add to the conception. Nor does the basic animation.

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