![]() That same night a crap magician (his loneliness and disappointment beautifully voiced by Benedict Wong) accidentally conjures up an elephant in the town’s opera house the beast comes crashing through the roof, squishing the legs of an old lady. ![]() To find her, Peter must “follow the elephant”, says the fortune-teller. One day he visits a fortune-teller who reveals that the sister he has always believed died as a baby, is alive. The film adaptation of Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling children’s book, The Magician’s Elephant about a young boy named Peter who embarks on a journey with a mysterious elephant premieres on Netflix today. Several of her books made the New York Times bestsellers list. The magicians elephant by Kate DiCamillo. The setting is a war-weary town called Baltese where Peter (Noah Jupe) is a young orphan being raised in the school of hard knocks by a gruff retired soldier (Mandy Patinkin), who has him practising military drills day and night. Kate DiCamillo is an American author of children’s fiction and twice winner of the Newbery Medal. The magicians elephant Bookreader Item Preview. The animation doesn’t help: characters speak with blank paralysed faces as if they’ve had botched Botox. ![]() ![]() It’s heartfelt and sweetly earnest, but humdrum and disappointingly unmagical. ‘N othing is impossible if you put your mind to it”: this is the blah-blah-bland message of this family movie, adapted from Kate DiCamillo’s popular kids’ novel. ![]()
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