2013 · animation · adventure · family
Khumba
Directed by Anthony Silverston1h 25m2013
A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich; they defeat the tyrannical leopard and save his herd.
Our read: Khumba (2013) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · adventure · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
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