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The Disney film brings a lot of center to a generic story.
By Ben Kenigsberg
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“The One and Only Ivan” takes large position in an off-road grocery shopping mall called Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. The unpretentious spectacle contradicts the diversity of skills experienced inside. No, not the skill of the animals acting in the circus that, curiously, is in the mall, but the dexterity of the actors who lend their voice to those animals.
See Angelina Jolie as a shrewd elephant, Helen Mirren as a well-dressed poodle or Chaka Khan as a baseball-playing bird. A glance at the list of actors leads to wondering which animal was given the slender voice of Phillipa so from “Hamilton”. But she plays a peripheral character, ara who doesn’t sing. Anyone who has faked an imitation of “Polly needs a cookie” has been enough.
A combination of live action, PC animation and well-integrated motion capture effects (although occasional plot boredom may lead you to look for seams), “The Unique and Unique Ivan”, broadcast on Disney and directed through Thea Sharrock. , brings a lot of center to a generic story. It is adapted from an award-winning children’s eBook in The Newbery, which animates itself through the story of a true gorilla from a shopping mall named Ivan.
Ivan from the film (voiced by Sam Rockwell) acts as a ferocious silver back in circus shows, however, in the scenes, he is a soft soul with a paint ability. The track master, Mack (Bryan Cranston, in the form of a painting), finally put Ivan to work, calling him the “Picasso’s primate” and the “artistic monkey of Exit 8”.
But most of the time, “The One and Only Ivan” is made up of fairly popular Disney lessons, about the difficulties of losing parents (real and substitutes) and the difficulty of accepting change. Ruby (Brooklynn Prince) is an elephant calf whose adoration threatens to borrow Ivan’s screen, but the elephant Jolie, Stella, highlights the ape’s parental temperament. When fleas run out, when Mack needs to get rid of a stray dog (Danny DeVito) or when the rabbit driving a truck with a chimney (Ron Funches) flattens up to the maximum in traffic, Ivan proves to be able to protect his group of artists, despite having only one troop of gorillas in the wild. (A flashback provides the necessary death scene of “Bambi”).
He’s a gorilla, the only one of his kind, it’s said. But the film itself is not right at this point of distinction.
The Unique and Unique Ivan rated PG by ‘light thematic elements’. Watch the subjects, children. Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes. Check out Disney.
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