Director Francis Lawrence has a knack for setting up great atmosphere, interesting characters, fascinationg settings only to mess it up with some sort of *ahem* elephant in the room.
Sadly, like Constantine & I Am Legend before it, Water For Elephants follows that to a tee. What could have been an fantastic film about a veterinarian student & an elephant traveling with the circus during The Great Depression, turns into a sappy love story with Reese Witherspoon playing the elephant I mentioned before.
Such a shame. It still has it's merits but is ultimately ruined by pushing a forced love story into the mix.
3 pricks with a stick out of 5
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