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He spends his off-hours hanging out with the aging Stella ( Angelina Jolie), a soft-spoken maternal elephant literally on her last legs, and Bob ( Danny DeVito), a scrappy and loyal mutt.īut the arrival of Ruby (Brooklynn Prince), a cute baby elephant whom Mack is depending on to turn things around, forces Ivan to confront his long-repressed past and for the first time address a potential future while keeping a promise to Stella regarding Ruby’s well-being. Meanwhile, his mighty 400-pound star attraction has settled into a steady (by his own count, 9,855-day) routine, even as he begins wondering if he’s lost his chest-pounding edge (“Why do they want an angry gorilla anyway?”). Like the circus show itself, the Big Top Mall and Video Arcade off Exit 8 can’t help but feel like a fading anachronism with its dwindling audiences and struggling ringmaster/proprietor, Mack ( Bryan Cranston), who faces each new day fending off a creeping, sweaty resignation. While the result isn’t exactly the stuff of broad, rousing summer escapism, those animals in captivity certainly capture the ongoing lockdown zeitgeist, making for a fitting home-viewing shift from the film’s intended Aug. Far fairer than Artemis Fowl, the poorly received, previous live-action/CGI hybrid to be rerouted from theaters to Disney+, The One and Only Ivan is a notably muted, soulful portrait of a silverback gorilla who reevaluates his seemingly contented life as a mall circus performer.īased on the Newbery Medal-winning 2013 novel by Katherine Applegate, which in turn took its inspiration from real-life events, the production offers a stirring take on themes of belonging and advocacy understated voicework from Sam Rockwell in the title role and intimate cinematography by Florian Ballhaus (a far cry from the sort of anthropomorphic animation on recent display in the likes of Dr.