Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
James Corden | ... | Billy (voice) | |
Stephen Fry | ... | Socrates (voice) | |
Andy Serkis | ... | Charles (voice) | |
Dawn French | ... | Angie (voice) | |
Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Winifred (voice) | |
Jim Broadbent | ... | Winston (voice) | |
Jason Donovan | ... | Toby (voice) | |
Omid Djalili | ... | Bongo (voice) | |
Sean Schemmel | ... | The Rhinoceros 'Biggie' (voice) | |
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Marc Thompson | ... | The Waterbuffalo Chino (voice) |
Jason Griffith | ... | The Chimpanzee 'Toto' (voice) | |
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Mischa Goodman | ... | Billy's son 'Junior' (voice) |
Elisabeth Williams | ... | Meerkat 1 (voice) (as Élisabeth Williams) | |
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Jessica Owen | ... | Meerkat 2 (voice) |
Erica Schroeder | ... | The Polar Bear 'Sushi' (voice) (as Bella Hudson) |
A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam for a leisure resort. The animals endeavor to save the delta and send a message to the humans not to interfere with nature. Written by Anonymous
Despite trying with some cheap jokes, the overall tone of this movie is rather dark, but what really bothers me is the inconsistency of the story and the overabundance of factual errors and improbabilities, in this movie we have African buffaloes with fur, upper incisors and (in the German dub) a Spanish accent, saltwater fish in a large open-top tank in either Botswana, Namibia or Angola (evaporation apparently being a non-issue for these tanks), animals from all over the globe who arrive in these landlocked regions after leaving a bathtub they used to cross the oceans, a biplane with an ATGM launcher, etc.. The worst of all these factual errors, IMHO, are the vegetarian lion - the rest of the carnivorous protagonists don't seem to eat anything either - and the dam closing in all water (instead of letting through roughly the same amount as before since otherwise it would simply spill over), because these are obvious plot devices to indoctrinate children with the political messages of this movie (meat is bad, mankind is evil).