Elephant's Child

Before going into the review I have to warn you eventual readers that I never read the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling but I seeked this short out because I was nearly over with the Jack Nicholson movies tho here he only narrates. It was a pleasant surprise since in the previous two days I saw two of Nicholson's slowest movies despite the star-studded casts (THE LAST TYCOON and REDS).

ELEPHANT'S CHILD is about how the elephant passed from a stubby nose to the trunk for which they are widely recognised to this day. It focuses about a baby elephant that is too curious to the point that ends kicked by all the other animals (ostrich, giraffe, hippopotamus and baboon) and also beaten by the other elephants of his herd. He then goes to the crocodile and he bites his nose up to the point of transforming it in the trunk we know today. Now with a trunk the baby elephant has his revenge on the animals that mocked him and also on the other elephants.

The narration by Nicholson is certainly a surprise. After all, you would never imagine him reading a children's story but he is flawless nonetheless. The music by Bobby McFerrin was also a nice add and it helped make this telling of the story very 1980s.

Overall, a nice short mostly recommended to all animal lovers. That's all.