Parents should exercise some judgment for their very youngest children in deciding to screen Delhi Safari. It looks and sounds a lot like the latest animated Disney films, at least in ambition if not execution.
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Most young American children will have little idea this movie was originally intended for a foreign audience, aside from a few references to Delhi and the governmental structure of India. The casting choices all fit their animal characters very well and the only odd thing that might be noticed are the occasional miscues in the lip-syncing of the animals’ mouths and English voices, since the animation was originally intended for the Hindi language. The voicework by the familiar Hollywood actors is surprisingly strong for a production that was made outside the Hollywood system.
Voice cameos by Jason Alexander, Carey Elwes and Jane Lynch also briefly appear. Guiding Yuvi along this journey are his wise mother, Begum (Vanessa Williams), a pigeon (Christopher Lloyd), a laid-back bear (Brad Garrett), and an aggressive monkey (Carlos Alazraqui), not to mention a few other wild animals that pop up along the journey.
The group of animals get the bright idea to force Alex into airing their grievances against humanity. How will the animals communicate with the humans? Alex (Tom Kenny) the wisecracking parrot can speak both animal and human languages, since he originally lived in a movie producer’s house in the city. Yuvi (Tara Strong) the leopard cub sees his father shot to death by human land developers, and talks a group of other animals into confronting the government of India.
It utilizes all the tropes of the animated genre aimed at families, from wacky animals to big musical productions, in moving the fairly generic conflict between civilization and the wild towards a predictable conclusion.ĭelhi Safari is a pastiche of other movies, from The Lion King to the latest films by Pixar.
For the international market, the producers hired well-known Hollywood stars to voice the friendly cartoon animals that go a journey to save their jungle habitat from urban land development. Delhi Safari is a CGI film produced in India. The rest of the world also watches the family films coming out of Hollywood these days, and it was only a matter of time before other countries took a shot at duplicating the familiar formula.
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