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Things don't add up in Free Jimmy
By
Derek Malcolm
16 Oct 2008
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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