Vanessa Williams does a good job voicing the leopard mom.
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Tara Strong does a pretty good job with this role despite all the crap in this movie I can say at least she acted the hell out of a leopard cub who sees his dad die and then come back to him in the form of a Mufasa style ghost he can only see for part of the movie. Seriously well at least the movie wasn't a major chore to sit through but still it's not very good. That Parrott has teeth for some reason, has a whole subplot where it fakes/loses his voice for part of it. This movie wildly rip-offs Madagascar and The Lion King at points, throws in Ferngully a little bit to spice the mixture up and some gut wrenching sadness from Bambi also.
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I would still recommend a Miyazaki movie over this if you want to see something with a better grasp on how to do messages like these. I do admit the cast does an OK job with the parts they give, Jane Lynch shows up with Jason Alexander sporting British accents, I think, at least seems like she's trying unlike some other foreign animated movies she's done dub work on. It overtly plays it's message card too much unfortunately and this movie is also fairly overlong at 96 minutes in length. There's a lot of messages beating you around on the head about pollution, deforestation, how humans kill animals constantly even the Parrott's final speech is so message laden. Hell when a group of wild animals including a Parrott starts blocking traffic in Delhi they apparently start throwing rocks at the creatures, and brandishing weapons including guns at them even when they aren't even showing signs of attacking anyone. There's a lot of "human's suck" speech during this movie, can't blame the animals though the humans in this are quick to violence towards any old wild animal they see even remotely approaching them. This monkey is also a crazy over the top militant activist monkey with a kill all humans credo wearing a Rambo headband in parts of this also? We get animals acting like they are drunk at one point in this and on drugs. Then he actually becomes his friend somehow. There's a lot of dark moments in this movie with the militant monkey character thinking of murdering the Parrott constantly for part of the movie. That one Parrott's owner is hitting on some lady during parts and I swear we almost cut to them having sex at one point which made me wonder how this got a PG rating. That Parrott is voiced by a really annoying Tom Kenny who is also slumming it, didn't think he would need some extra cash with SpongeBob and all but whatever. I don't think so, but that's what this movie is going for a crazy plot idea. They think he can speak to the humans and convince them to stop their destructive killing of the wildlife. Ultimately after the deforestation squad keeps bulldozing their home the group of animals including a bear the leopards, the militant monkeys go and kidnap a Parrott who lives in some human's home for some reason. There's trigger happy monkeys in this movie who hate humans so much they want to declare war on them and pull out dual pistols at several early points in this.
And it's not just there, there's portions afterwards were we have comedy bits going on after we just had that cub's dad get shot down we are trying comedy now? And then the tone snaps back to serious with something the mom leopard says. Yeah I'm sure the kids watching this were terrified and heartbroken. We have that dismal dark opening with Tara Strong voicing a sad leopard cub and then we smack into a family friendly sing song with his dad voiced by Cary Elwes and Mom voiced by Vanessa Williams which then leads into a standoff scene with the Indian deforestation squad and dad leopard (Sultan I think was his name) getting shot to death with a shotgun. Part of the problem with this movie is severe mood whiplash throughout.
It takes balls though for a kids movie like this to open on a crying leopard cub state that his father has been killed and he might lose his home soon. The cast is really actually pretty star studded including even Tom Kenny and Tara Strong voicing characters in this. The animation and songs are pretty mediocre and the voice acting only adequate to good for the most part. I can tell this movie was sponsored by Peta. Bear with me this review will be rather long and rambling because there's just so much to unpack from this movie: