Metacritic Film

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

Starring Angela Basset, Joanna Lumley, Anne Archer, and Debi Derryberry

MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences

Buena Vista Pictures
Family/Kids
72 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 13, 2000

This live-action comedy adventure tells the true story of a baby elephant, stranded in the wild, and the dangers, fun, excitement and laughter of his amazing journey towards self-discovery as he searches for his lost mother. (Walt Disney Pictures)

WRITTEN BY
Dereck Joubert (also story)
Jordan Moffett
Holly Goldberg Sloan

DIRECTED BY
Beverly Joubert
Dereck Joubert

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

30 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 New York Daily News
If even one audience member leaves more concerned with the evils of poachers than the pleasures of Pokemon, Disney's more than done its job.
50 New York Post
Probably would have yielded a more interesting documentary than this sugary feature.
40 TV Guide
The story's a bore; its arrhythmic stutter of humor and drama, tension and calm never builds into any coherent emotional arc.
20 Variety Charles Isherwood
The unsophisticated, even crude result is not likely to win over too many tots.
10 The New York Times
Brilliant film of nature has been warped into something jarringly unnatural.

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