Whispers - An Elephant's Tale (1948)

2yr old son loves this movie!

My son loves this movie - he wanted to rent it everytime we went to Blockbuster, so I just went ahead and bought it. It is a cute story. The only rough part is hunters shooting off their guns, but it doesn't show any gore, and is pretty short. It is a cute family story with great live footage. October 9, 2008

Elephants & Extras

Set in the wilderness of Africa and featuring real animals who express themselves with human voices, Whispers follows the misadventures of an elephant calf named Whispers (Debi Derryberry) who gets separated from his mother (voiced by Anne Archer). In his desperate search to find her, he hooks up with a pessimistic pachyderm with some junk in the trunk. Her name is Groove (Angela Bassett), and in spite of her loner mindset she decides to help the little one in his plight.

I saw this movie when it aired on TV, and I found it pretty boring. However, I think kids will enjoy the story and the locations are quite beautiful. There aren't many extras on the DVD, but it's worth a look if you think you'll enjoy the scenery. June 16, 2007

Awesome and very touching movie for all ages

This is one of the most awesome and heartwarming movies I've seen, with a great moral to the story. I loved everything about this movie. It is educational, funny, touching, and the music is really cool. This movie is recommended for every boy and girl and also the adults who still "have a heart" and are touched by warm, good stories with a happy ending. We would "cough up water" for this movie. Watch it, better yet - buy a copy, you won't regret it and your children surely won't. March 8, 2006

Great Family Movie!!

As old as this movie is, I've only ran across it last year while watching t.v. and found it playing. As a lover of both animals and Africa, I truly loved this movie. This is not a cartoon. It is a real movie with real animals filmed in Beautiful Africa! It's a heartwarming tale of a baby elephant named Whispers who becomes seperated from his mother. He desperately tries to find her and runs upon another female adult elephant named Groove. Groove is alone too, for she is an outcast from her herd but she never wanted to have a "baby". They end up teaming up together... for she can not resist loveable Whispers.... in order to find Whisper's mother. Along the way, they run into many surprises. All the animals in this movie express themselves with real human voices. The voice of Whispers is just adorable. A great Walt Disney movie for the whole family. You experience not only a touching story but also the beauty of Africa itself. I found this movie so good, that I bought it. Very much worth the money. Great movie! March 6, 2006

Suicidal Cartoons

We recently enjoyed watching the elephants walk around and talk to each other. After the feature film, we started watching one of the bonus cartoons that came with the DVD. This cartoon short was called "Clown of the Jungle".

The cartoon starts with a bird smoking a big stogie. After enjoying his cigar, he decides that life is too much to handle and attempts to kill himself.

Twice during the cartoon the character is seen holding a gun to his head.
Twice during the cartoon the character is seen with a noose around his neck.
Finally, since he didn't manage to kill himself using those methods, he decided that drinking poison was the only way to go.

My 2 & 4 year old girls really enjoyed this, next weekend they want to watch Faces of Death or maybe HBO's Autopsy.

On a more serious note, when I was growing up, we would see this all the time, but I think things have changed a bit since then. Of the millions of cartoon clips, I'm a little shocked to see one of this nature on a G Rated Disney DVD.

Enjoy. October 25, 2004

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