on Disney+. The sweet film is not only based on the children’s book by Katherine Applegate, but also the moving true story of a gorilla who became a sensation at a super-mall circus when it was discovered he could paint.Because an actual ape had this experience, the real look makes sense in a way it didn’t at all for, say, the more fanciful “Lion King.” A wild lion never really lived through the plot of “Hamlet” and then was raised by a singing warthog and meerkat — as far as I know.At the start of the movie, Ivan (voiced by Sam Rockwell) is bored and resigned to his circus life, performing to a mostly empty theater and having forgotten the outside world.
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