Babar: The Movie
About Babar: The Movie
Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious rhinoceroses that have come to raid it.
Alan Bunce's Babar: The Movie is a 1989 animation film. Gordon Pinsent stars as King Babar, Elizabeth Hanna as Queen Celeste, Lisa Yamanaka as Isabelle, and Marsha Moreau as Flora.
It runs 70 minutes and was released in July 1989. Written by Alan Bunce and J.D. Smith.
Shelv files it under prison escape, slavery, cartoon elephant, and rhinoceros. American members can watch it on Amebatv Amazon Channel. It scores 5.8 out of 10 from 50 TMDB voters and it carries a G rating.
Dumbo, The Color Purple, and The Harvest make useful companions to Babar: The Movie, all filed under musical.