![]() The discordant tone problems show up right from the jump by having Natasia Demetriou serve as narrator directed to use only a slightly softened version of Nadja of Antipaxos voice from What We Do in the Shadows. ![]() Nothing ever really meshes, giving the movie a split personality that seems doomed to bore viewers, young and old, during the “serious” parts. With that in mind, they tasked director Wendy Rogers and screenwriter Martin Hynes to “lighten this one up,” resulting in a film that incongruously ping-pongs between being a silly caper and an exploration of suppressed grief and sadness a real “must watch” topic for kids. ![]() It’s almost like the studio knew this rather melancholy fairy tale about a town and its people suffering PTSD in the aftermath of a devastating war was kind of a downer. Netflix’s adaptation of author Kate DiCamillo’s The Magician’s Elephant makes some fatal tone mistakes in trying to smoosh together comedy, tragedy, childhood wonder and animal exploitation-which clash pretty hard. ![]() The wrong tonal choices can be a killer, especially when it comes to making an animated film tailored to kids. ![]()
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