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Following the herd
Join a group of elephants as they embark on a mammoth journey.
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Part of the new and exclusive content on Disney+, Elephant tells the story of one of Africa’s great migrations – from the Okavango Delta to Victoria Falls – through the eyes of three individuals: Gaia, the matriarch, her sister Shani, and Shani’s calf, Jomo.
As you’d expect, the cinematography is bafflingly good, the film’s feature length allowing us to both luxuriate in close-ups of elephant eyelashes and to lose ourselves in glorious scenics as we walk with the herd through the drying Kalahari.
What you can’t do is enjoy David Attenborough at the helm – it’s not, it’s Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Because, of course, this is a family movie, aimed not at cynical BBC Two viewers but a young, global audience. Meghan’s over-expressive, playful voiceover is rather irritating in places, delivering a
