I was disappointed with this one. I really hoped it'd be an amazing movie with great visuals and a story. But after about 10 minutes in to the movie, I badly wanted this to be a documentary rather than a feature film. Stupid decisions the characters make are just there for the progress but the logic is failed badly.

For kids I think this has some good vibe but not for adults.

Newly orphaned Phoenix Wilder (Sam Ashe Arnold) travels to South Africa to live with his Aunt Sarah (Elizabeth Hurley). She runs a safari outfit with her husband Uncle Jack from his family compound. Elephants on the reserve are being hunted by illegal poachers. Phoenix gets lost while on an outing and befriends an elephant.

Phoenix surprising the poachers is a silly conceit. He has a slow-moving giant elephant with him. The poachers have to be dumb and blind to not see him coming. All of it is staged like a Disney kiddie show. It's always a little weird when a kid has to Home Alone the bad guys when the bad guys are geared for war. As for Uncle Jack, it's an unwelcome revelation. It muddies the simple morality without giving back something compelling. It's nice to see the animals but this is a bad kiddie movie.

Young Sam Ashe Arnold gets an adventure of a lifetime when he journeys from Canada over to South Africa to visit his aunt Elizabeth Hurley and uncle Tertius Mientjes who are wardens on an animal preserve. One of their duties is to protect Africa's elephants from poachers.

On his first day their these two manage to misplace their nephew who gets lost on the veld. But he makes a friend of an elephant and the two of them in true Boy's Life fashion make fools out of gang of ivory poachers.

A bit of the old Fury TV series and a bit of the Jay North film Maya goes into Phoenix Wilder And The Great Elephant Adventure. It's a nice family film which broaches a serious subject about preserving the great herds of elephants from poachers lest they become extinct.

I'd see this one.